Some people press (35 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Life with no parole for fifty years. That's what my paperwork reads. I saw it in print the day I arrived." So begins Patty Prewitt's epistolary memoir, describing the first eighteen years of her incarceration in various Missouri women's prisons. Her letters tell the nightmarish story of incarceration while also describing her daily attempts at making the best of the situation with keen observation, humor, and compassion for those around her. Patty served thirty-eight years before her sentence was commuted.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Life with no parole for fifty years. That's what my paperwork reads. I saw it in print the day I arrived.' So begins Patty Prewitt's epistolary memoir, Trying to Catch Lightning in a Jar, describing the first eighteen years of her incarceration in various Missouri women's prisons. Her letters tell the nightmarish story of incarceration while also describing her daily attempts at making the best of the situation with keen observation, humor, and compassion for those around her. Patty served thirty-eight years before her sentence was commuted.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Shaw, Virgil (illustrator).

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Paperback. Zustand: New. Jackson, Johanna; Johanson, Chris (illustrator).

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This is a collection of short descriptions of what I was experiencing in the early '90s. I was mostly homeless back then, either living in a small trailer that wasn't hooked up to anything, or living in my grampa's 1971 truck camper, which also was never hooked up to anything. I would do a lot of my writing by hand in those two vehicles, mostly on tiny scraps of paper or on a manual typewriter. I remember sometimes just heating my hands with a burning candle, and the police would sometimes harass me about not having an address, and I could also sometimes hear people talking as they walked past the vehicles I was living in, trying to stay very quiet, so no one would know I was in there. But I liked writing in those cramped little spaces, for some reason. I felt separate from everything. It felt important. So, Harrell began collecting those scraps that were scattered randomly in boxes that I stored at various friends' houses and sorted them to help make a more coherent collection of stories. And while he was typing out my scraps, I would sometimes sleep over at his house, on the floor, drinking beer and eating toast, wondering how the book would turn out, and why he was doing it, and HOW he was doing it, because there were hundreds of these little scraps of paper. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 195. Johanson, Chris (illustrator).…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Joey Lucero wrote his autobiographical set of stories in Worth It! while incarcerated. The book is a wild ride through his unbelievable life experiences with family, friends, criminal associates, and a variety of celebrities, who make cameo appearances. Though the subject matter is often disturbing and sometimes sad, Lucero manages to find bizarre humor and even hope all along the way. Lucero has spent the majority of his adult life in custody (for everything from drug manufacturing and sales to driving without a license) but also plays music in a variety of bands, has been in long term romantic relationships, had long lasting friendships, and maintains an unbreakable commitment to his family, especially his mother, who sometimes joins him in his various exploits. Readers learn, through Lucero's revealing, often hilarious, first-person writing, about an alternate reality that exist all around us. Worth It! is destined to become a classic of prison writing. It is the third book in the Same Time series and features a foreword by Zoe Dubno and cover artwork by Lauren dela Roche.Some People Press publishes autobiographical books by formerly incarcerated writers, as well as books on art and other subjects. Some People Press challenges the idea that only certain people-with the right educations, experiences, and connections-can be published authors. The project does not require that participants have experience writing. Instead, the process we use works with existing skills and knowledge by asking people to "write what you know." Incarcerated participants develop writing skills at their own pace with the support and feedback of their peers and weekly meetings with project leaders and visitors.Many of the writers whose work are included in the Same Time series have taken part in the autobiographical writing and publishing project at Columbia River Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison in Northeast Portland, Oregon. During weekly classes they workshopped their writing with fellow participants and various visiting writers, publishers, and artists including Miranda July, Chris Johanson, Jim Drain, and Laura Moulton. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 314.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Written while Arron Magar was incarcerated in prison, How Long Is Five Minutes? tells the story of Magar's early life in the foster care system, living as a street kid, doing drugs and small-time crimes, and his eventual incarceration in youth authority, county jails, and prisons. All the while maintaining a philosophical viewpoint on family, religion, friendship, and crime and punishment. Magar's idiosyncratic style and detailed observations make for a rarely heard first person perspective account that covers a string of topics and issues impacting and challenging society today. It is the second book in the Same Time series and features an afterword by Laura Moulton and cover artwork by Chris Johanson.Some People Press publishes autobiographical books by formerly incarcerated writers, as well as books on art and other subjects. Some People Press challenges the idea that only certain people-with the right educations, experiences, and connections-can be published authors. The project does not require that participants have experience writing. Instead, the process we use works with existing skills and knowledge by asking people to "write what you know." Incarcerated participants develop writing skills at their own pace with the support and feedback of their peers and weekly meetings with project leaders and visitors.Many of the writers whose work are included in the Same Time series have taken part in the autobiographical writing and publishing project at Columbia River Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison in Northeast Portland, Oregon. During weekly classes they workshopped their writing with fellow participants and various visiting writers, publishers, and artists including Miranda July, Chris Johanson, Jim Drain, and Laura Moulton. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 254.…