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Prison Writing in 20th Century America
H. Bruce Franklin
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Penguin Books, 1998.
The definitive collection of 20th-century American prison writing.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction by Tom Wicker
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Editor's Introduction
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From Plantation to Penitentiary
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Plantation Prison, Autobiography of an Imprisoned Peon (1904)
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Songs of the Prison Plantation
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"Go Down Old Hannah"
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"Midnight Special"
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"Easy Rider"
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The Early Modern American Prison
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Jack London, "'Pinched': A Prison Experience" and "The Pen" (1907)
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Donald Lowrie, from My Life in Prison (1912)
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Agnes Smedley, "Cell Mates" (1920)
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Kate Richards O'Hare, from Crime and Criminals (1921)
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Jim Tully, "California Holiday" (1928)
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Ernest Booth, "Ladies in Durance Vile" (1931)
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Chester Himes, "To What Red Hell?" (1934)
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Nelson Algren, "El Presidente de Méjico" (1947)
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Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (1956)
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The Movement and the Prison
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Malcolm X , from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
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George Jackson, from Soledad Brother (1970)
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Iceberg Slim, from The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (1971)
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Mshaka, "Formula for Attica Repeats" (1974)
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Piri Thomas, from Seven Long Times (1974)
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Jack Abbott, from In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
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Assata Shakur , from Assata (1987)
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The Literary Renaissance
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Malcolm Braly, from On the Yard (1967)
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Etheridge Knight
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"The Warden Said to Me the Other Day" (1968)
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"Hard Rock Returns to Prison, from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane"
(1968)
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"For Freckle-Faced Gerald" (1968)
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Paul Mariah "
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Quarry/Rock: A Reality Poem in the Tradition of Genet" (1969)
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"Always We Watch Them" (1970)
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"Shakedown & More" (1971)
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Norma Stafford
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"In Santa Cruz" (1972)
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"The Gone One" (1973)
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William Wantling,
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from Sestina to San Quentin (1973)
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"Poetry" (1973)
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"Who's Bitter?" (1973)
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Michael Hogan
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"Spring" (1975)
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"Confessions of a Jailhouse Lawyer" (1975)
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Carolyn Baxter
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"Lower Court" (1979)
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"35 Years a Correctional Officer" (1979)
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"On Being Counted" (1979)
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Jimmy Santiago Baca
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"The New Warden" (1979)
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"The County Jail" (1979)
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"I Applied for the Board" (1982)
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Jackie Ruzas
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"Easy To Kill" (1975)
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"The Bus Ride" (1983)
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Edward Bunker, from Little Boy Blue (1981)
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Nathan C. Heard, from House of Slammers (1983)
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Charles Culhane
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"Of Cold Places" (1984)
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"Autumn Yard" (1985)
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"First Day of Hanukkah" (1986)
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Patricia McConnel,
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"Sing Soft, Sing Loud" (1989)
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Kim Wozencraft, from Notes, from the Country Club (1993)
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Jerome Washington
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"Diamond Bob" (1994)
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"The Blues Merchant" (1994)
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"Nobody's Hoss" (1994)
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"Barracuda and Sheryl" (1994)
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"Shing-a-Ling and China" (1994)
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Kathy Boudin
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"Our Skirt" (1997)
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"The Call" (1997)
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The American Gulag Today
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Dannie Martin
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"AIDS: The View, from a Prison Cell" (1986)
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"A Prescription for Torture" (1990)
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"A Mount Everest of Time" (1990)
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
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"B-Block Days and Nightmares" (1990)
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"Skeleton Bay" (1993)
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"Already Out of the Game" (1994)
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Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Past Present" (1992)
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