About this Book: |
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This chapbook is a collection of short stories and poems, paired to provide a framework for each. I did not begin writing either stories or poems until I was incarcerated in a federal prison.
I determined to write a chapbook that would be entertaining, but at the same time one which would stimulate a broader understanding of the lives of prisoners. It was not my intention to start a revolution or castigate those who operate the criminal justice system, neither did I wish to develop an apology for those incarcerated in that system.
When I started writing this chapbook, I posted a note before me to keep me focused on what I hoped to accomplish. That note reads:
‘This is a book about how it feels to be accused, investigated, committed, alienated, punished, stigmatized, separated, abused, demeaned, and virtually enslaved."
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About the Author: |
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This writer has had an adventurous life, having visited all 50 of the United States and more than 60 foreign countries.
He has resided in Canada, Japan, and South Africa.
He was one of the first soldiers to enter Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the atomic blasts of World War II.
He was the first white student to break the color barrier at the all-black Atlanta University.
He visited the Amazon interior at the site of the murder of seven missionaries.
He survived rebel fire in Havana, the week prior to Castro taking power.
In the mid-sixties, he survived an ambush during the massacres in the Congo.
He has been a college profession, vice-president and president and holds two doctorates; one in the Sociology of Religion and one in Higher Education.
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