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Bezig met laden... Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (PEN American Center Prize Anthologies) (editie 2011)door Bell Gale Chevigny
Informatie over het werkDoing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology) door Bell Gale Chevigny
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""Doing Time," For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity."--BOOK JACKET. "For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide. Bell Chevigny, a writer herself and a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these to create Doing Time - a timely, beautiful, sometimes devastating, but vital work, which demonstrates resoundingly that prison writing is a vibrant branch of American literature."--Jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Each year, the PEN American Center welcomes submissions for prisoners: short stories, essays, poetry, and prose. Over 25 years of winning entries make up this book, which runs the gamut from coarse to majestic. The subject matter is, at turns, heartbreaking and haunting, infuriating and insightful.
The collection is broken into thematic sections, focusing on such topics as Race, Family, Getting Out, Prison Work, Routines, Prison Initiations, and Death Row. Each section is teed up with an introductory preface that frames up the topics and the subsequent writings. This made it easy to take the book in smaller bites, which is good because at times the stories became a bit overwhelming and I needed a bit of a break before reengaging.
This book will - I believe - give you a much stronger sense of what life inside the razor wire is like. I came to empathize with many of the men and women who shared their stories, be the writings fact or fiction. These stories humanize those often marginalized as inhuman. They put you inside the walls and allow you to feel the frustration, fear, rage, grace, hope, and hopelessness that accompany inmates each moment of every day.
This collection is a rough ride - no punches are pulled about how violent, dehumanizing, or profane prison life can be. But it's a rewarding read, with writing that relies on authenticity as a cornerstone. Whether terse or elegant, these stories and poems feel as if they come from the heart: hardened hearts, broken hearts, open hearts. ( )