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Author : Edward Bunker
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 765/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Education of a Felon by : Edward Bunker
Download or read book Education of a Felon written by Edward Bunker. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bunker chronicles the experiences he has had that help inspire him when writing his popular crime novels.
Author : Edward Bunker
Release : 2000-03-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 158/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Education of a Felon by : Edward Bunker
Download or read book Education of a Felon written by Edward Bunker. This book was released on 2000-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time. From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming in the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful as any of his novels and as compelling as the life he's lead.
Author : Harvey Silverglate
Release : 2011-06-07
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Three Felonies a Day by : Harvey Silverglate
Download or read book Three Felonies a Day written by Harvey Silverglate. This book was released on 2011-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Release : 2019-10-15
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Felon: Poems by : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Download or read book Felon: Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
Author : Kazim Ali
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bright Felon by : Kazim Ali
Download or read book Bright Felon written by Kazim Ali. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally "autobiography" because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Lyn Hejinian's My Life, and Etel Adnan's In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country. A reader's companion is available at http://brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/
