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311 FurthEr rEading These are by no means exhaustive lists, but an offering of direction to those newly interested in American prison writing, and in the history, effects, current operation of, and critical responses to mass incarceration in the United States. Note that many of the titles in prisoner writing are out of print but may be found through online booksellers and in libraries. Many more titles in prisoner writing can be found by searching WorldCat (click Advanced Search, and then, in the Keyword line, type Prison Writing). sELECtEd amEriCan PrisonEr writing Abbott, Jack Henry. In the Belly of the Beast. New York: Knopf, 1991. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Baxter, Carolyn. Prison Solitary and Other Free Government Services. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1979. Berrigan, Philip. Widen the Prison Gates: Writing from Jails, April 1970 to December 1972. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. Betts, Dwayne R. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison. New York: Avery, 2010. Braly, Malcolm. On the Yard. (Fiction). New York: New York Review Books, 2002. Bruchac, Joseph, ed. The Light from Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1984. Bunker, Edward. Little Boy Blue. (Fiction). New York: St. Martin’s, 1997. —. No Beast So Fierce. (Fiction). Harpenden, England: No Exit Press, 2008. Carr, James. Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr. Oakland, CA: AK Press/Nabat, 2002. Chevigny, Bell Dale, ed. Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing. New York: Arcade, 1999. Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. New York: Delta, 1992. Davis, Angela Y., and Bettina Aptheker. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance. New York: The Third Press, 1971. Falkoff, Marc, ed. Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. American Prisoners and Ex-prisoners, Their Writings: An Annotated Bibliography of Published Works, 1798–1981. Westport, CT: L. Hill, 1982. —. Prison Writing in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin, 1998. Furio, Jennifer, ed. Letters from Prison: Voices of Women Murderers. New York: Algora, 2001. Grant, Joseph W. Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off! A Brief History of the Prisoners’ Digest International. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012. Harris, Jean. They Always Call Us Ladies: Stories from Prison. New York: Scribner’s, 1988. Hartman, Kenneth E. Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars. New York: Atlas & Co., 2009. Heard, Nathan. House of Slammers. (Fiction). New York: MacMillan, 1983. Himes, Chester. Yesterday Will Make You Cry. (Fiction). New York: Norton, 1999. Jackson, Bruce, ed. Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 312 Further Reading Jackson, George. Blood in My Eye. 1972; Baltimore: Black Classics Press, 1990. —. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1994. James, Joy, ed. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Jones, Hettie, ed. Aliens at the Border: The [Poetry] Writing Workshop at Bedford Hills [Women’s] Correctional Facility. New York: Segue Books, 1997. Kilgore, Deborah, ed. My Mask Is: Prison Poems and Stories by Women. Chicago: Small Garlic Press, 1999. Knight, Etheridge. The Essential Etheridge Knight. (Poems). Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1986. Martin, Dannie. Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog. New York: Norton, 1993. Lamb, Wally, ed. Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Facility. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. —. I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Mariah, Paul. Personae Non Gratae. (Poems). San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy, 1971. Masters, Jarvis Jay. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row. Junction City, CA: Padma, 1997. —. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row. New York: HarperOne, 2009. McConnel, Patricia. Sing Soft, Sing Loud. (Fiction). Flagstaff, AZ: Logoria, 1995. Melville, Samuel. Letters from Attica. New York: William Morrow, 1972. Moody, Graham, ed. Pelican’s Progress: Anthology of Prison Writing from Pelican Bay State Prison. Crescent City, CA: Pelican Bay State Prison, 2009. Norfolk Prison Brothers. Who Took the Weight? Black Voices from the Norfolk Prison. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1972. O’Hare, Kate Richards. In Prison. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976. Pell, Eve, and members of the Prison Law Project, ed. Maximum Security: Letters from California’s Prisons. New York: Dutton, 1972. Peltier, Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance...

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