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Author : Virgil E. Jones-EL
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1634171462
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poems of a Political Prisoner written by Virgil E. Jones-EL and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcos Ana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916312180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poems from Prison and Life written by Marcos Ana and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems were written in prison, in the depth of night, by the poor light of a peculiar lamp, assembled from an old inkwell, a little alcohol that I smuggled from the sick bay and a wick plaited from the lace of an espadrille. Afterwards when eyes and keys were waking up, I would hide my words in a shoe and while walking in the prison yard, on a circular path that led nowhere, I would memorise the poems, giving them form and harmony...' The Spanish Communist poet Marcos Ana (1920-2016) was Spain's longest serving political prisoner. Captured by Italian troops at the end of the Civil War, he spent the next 23 years in Franco's prisons, often in solitary confinement. In prison he started writing poems, which were smuggled out and published as Poemas desde la cercel (1960). Ana was eventually released in 1961, following an international campaign led by Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yves Montand, Pablo Picasso and Joan Baez. Che Guevara was carrying one of Ana's books when he was executed. Clear, musical, painful and compelling, Poems from Prison and Life is the first English translation of Ana's last book, published when he was 91, in order to 'open a path of fire and rebellion in the hearts and minds of the new generations, in whose furrows we have sown our history.'
Author : Stella Nyanzi
Publisher : Political Prisoner
ISBN 13 : 9789970733019
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from Prison written by Stella Nyanzi and published by Political Prisoner. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Oxfam / Novib PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression"Nyanzi is a hero. Her insistence on violating patriarchy's rules by talking explicitly about taboo subjects-be they the president's buttocks, sex, sexuality, queerness-should be studied everywhere as a masterclass in the power of refusing to obey the rules of "politeness." - Mona Eltahawy, author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls"Through her actions, Nyanzi has shown that fighting for a free, democratic and equal Uganda does not come free. [...] Her story is one that reminds Ugandans that the struggle for freedom has never been achieved by playing to the standards of civility set by those in power." - Rosebell Kagumire, Editor, African Feminism Stella Nyanzi was arrested on November 2, 2018 for posting a poem on Facebook that was said to cyber-harras the long-serving President of Uganda, Mr. Yoweri Museveni. She was convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in jail. At the date of publishing this poetry collection, Nyanzi remains incarcerated. She wrote all the poems in this collection during her detention. This arguably makes her the first Ugandan prison writer to publish a poetry collection written in jail while still incarcerated. The first batch of the poems was released on her 45th birthday on June 16, 2019 celebrated while she was in jail under the hashtag #45Poems4Freedom. Other poems were written after the birthday. These poems must be read not only for their beauty and the power of the poet's vision, but also for the bravery and radical intent of their writing and publishing.
Author : Mahvash Sabet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853985693
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prison Poems written by Mahvash Sabet and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the Persian by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani based on translations by Violette and Ali Nakhjavani, these poems testify to the courage and the despair, the misery and the hopes of thousands of Iranians struggling to survive conditions of extreme oppression.
Author : John WorldPeace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781076612151
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dr John WorldPeace JD Prison Poems 2008 written by John WorldPeace and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, I was in prison as a political prisoner. I acquired my Peace Advocate bona fides there. The catalyst was my running for governor of Texas 2000-2002 within and against the Democratic Party of Texas. I have other books about that to be published.These poems are a companion to my prison journal which will be published soon.I was in a strange environment in 2008, one people fear. I did not deliberately seek a jail term. The Judicial system is very corrupt and unpeaceful. My expertise on this suject is grounded in 20 years as a practicing attorney in Texas.When I entered jail, I determined that I would not waste a year of my life and I would come out with something tangible. What I came out with were about 3000 pages on 250 word pages; several books, poems, a jail journal, my autobiography and I read 55 books. I really took advantage of every minute of my time in jail.The last 5 months I was in isolation with only 13 hours out of my cell. Which is illegal. I did not have to deal with the general population. It was a contract prison where there was not enough to eat and with none of the rights guaranteed in a non contract federal prison. Contract prisons are just more political corruption.The poems are about what was going on mentally within my head. My jail journal is about what was going on physically which included abusive mind control and harassment from the guards. The first six months I had my own room in a 24 unit cell block of lawyers and bad cops who had to be kept out of the general population. The last six months, I was moved to South Texas to a 500 man unit contract prison. I was kept in solitary confinement or administrative segregation as they politically correctly call it. I was in a 10 x 10 room with a toilet, sink, mirror, shower and bed. It was always cold in prison to keep the tension down with the inmates. I was fed through a 6 x 15 inch slot in a steel door.For those without a desire to read or write, life is hell in prison. Extremely boring. Not bad or hard, just mentally oppressive.I was born in 1948, in Houston, Texas. I presently live in Albuquerque, New MexicoIn October 1970, I wrote my first poem of the poems that I am publishing. Almost 50 years since then, I have written about 2400 poems. Most of the poems could be looked at as a tiny biography of my life; one-page snap-shots of what I was thinking or experiencing at the moment over 50 years.I have also published selections of the poems. In June 2018, I began to self-publish the selections of poems and all the poems I have ever written to date in chronological order using Amazon's self-publishing software. There will be about 30 poem books in total. I did not publish the various books in chronological order by year written. I will continue to write poems and in fact, will probably increase the volume of poems over the next 50 years. I also intend to pick a theme like Santa Fe, New Mexico and write a book about my impressions there. The number of possible subjects is infinite.I have also published a book of Haiku which are 3 line poems with 5, 7, 5 syllables per line. I would expect to publish a book of these poems annually and also some theme books of Haiku.I do not force my poems. I don't write unless I feel inspired. I have no desire to set a world record for a number of poems written in a lifetime. Working toward some number of poems would crash the whole endeavor with boredom. The poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder by year. I have lost less than a dozen poems over the years. Usually within a very few minutes after writing the poem I have no real memory of what I wrote. However, if I reread it, I will have a familiarity with what I wrote. The changes I make when publishing are very few.
Author : Jack Mapanje
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435911980
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison written by Jack Mapanje and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increase student performance, student engagement, and critical analysis skills with We the People. This program is available with GinA, an educational game in which students learn American Government by doing, as well as McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart, an adaptive questioning tool proven to increase content comprehension and improve student results. Try our Politics in Practice which uses real-life scenarios to develop students’ critical thinking skills through activities and a written argument. Unique to this program is a balanced, well-respected author who makes complex topics easy. Tom Patterson is a recognized voice in media who teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. We the People’s strong authorship and market-leading digital products make this an ideal solution to course goals.
Author : Ralph Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bars and Shadows written by Ralph Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Falkoff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297183
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poems from Guantanamo written by Marc Falkoff and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of cases, even the circumstances of their initial detainment are questionable. This collection gives voice to the men held at Guantánamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo. If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry “forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change,” these verses—some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys—are the most basic form of the art. Death Poem by Jumah al Dossari Take my blood. Take my death shroud and The remnants of my body. Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely. Send them to the world, To the judges and To the people of conscience, Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded. And let them bear the guilty burden before the world, Of this innocent soul. Let them bear the burden before their children and before history, Of this wasted, sinless soul, Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors or peace." Jumah al Dossari is a thirty-three-year old Bahraini who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than five years. He has been in solitary confinement since the end of 2003 and, according to the U.S. military, has tried to kill himself twelve times while in custody.
Author : Ibrahim Olawale
Publisher : The Roaring Lion Newcastle LTD
ISBN 13 : 1913636917
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prisoner of Love: A Poetry Chapbook written by Ibrahim Olawale and published by The Roaring Lion Newcastle LTD. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems navigates love’s place in the human experience. I place emphasis on “the place of love” because I believe that every poet is driven by a certain shade of love to birth the deepest of poetic pieces. For example, the poet, JP Clark, was driven by the “place of love” to write “Ibadan”. In this collection, the poet uses simple diction to navigate deep and complicated human emotions. We see that in the poem, “Seeds of Love”: The foundation of our love wasn’t strong; it was built on sinking sands, and as hail and sandstorms threatened, our love crashed like a sandcastle. And I think this is what makes this collection unique. Here, we see a poet who is content with the simplicity of language, the lightness of metaphors to express emotions. The poems find their relativity in the softness of their language. As expected, in exploring the “place of love”, these love poems are not just about the flowery feeling and the butterflies that love elicits; no, they mention the heartbreak, the hurt that comes along with it, for is love not about pain and betrayal too? This collection is not only about the “place of love”; as I mentioned earlier, driven by another shade of love, the poet also explores the “love of body” as seen in the poem, “My Body”: I have learnt to love my body with its scars, to treat it like a prized ornament, to worship it and give it the care it deserves. I have learnt to love myself. You will also see poems about the “love of place”, where the poet dissects the soul of his nation, where he mourns a nation that sends her children out to the harsh experience of becoming immigrants in another country. In all, this is a graceful collection of poems, thematically linked in their concerns, yet diverse in the kinds of emotions each one will provoke in the reader.
Author : Nazim Hikmet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0892552743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poems of Nazim Hikmet Revised and Expanded Edition written by Nazim Hikmet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet. A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.
