Spoon Jacksons Gedichte sind, wie sein Übersetzer Rainer Komers schreibt, "Kassiber in Zeilenform, persönlich und direkt", schnörkellose Botschaften aus einer Realität, die sich wie rohes Fleisch anfühlt. In Jacksons Gedichten steht nicht die Lebenswelt des Gefängnisses in Mittelpunkt, sondern der Einzelne, der dort sein Leben fristen muss, ohne Aussicht auf Begnadigung, jedoch immer bemüht, die menschliche Würde zu wahren. Mit der Beobachtung von Natur und der Erinnerung an seine Jugend h...

Western philosophy’s relationship with prisons stretches from Plato’s own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside and outside prison walls, in the United States and beyond, who draw on a variety of critical perspectives (including phenomenology, deconstruction, and feminist theory) and historical and contemporary figures in philo...

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art."A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. Th...

An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students.The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum but also reflects, through both form and content, on the complexities of seeing both the parts and the whole. The book presents different aspects of Judith—poet, teaching artist, friend, mentor, colleague—through a collection of original poetry, prose, essay, illustration, and fiction from ...