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Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates convicted of capital crimes. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work. The inmates emerge not as beasts or heroes but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings.
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"This is one of the more remarkable works I have come across during many years in the study of writing about the American prison experience." -- H. Bruce Franklin, author of Prison Writing in 20th-Century America
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judith tannenbaum serves as Training Coordinator of the WritersCorps program in San Francisco. For over twenty-five years she has taught poetry to prisoners, primary-age children, continuation high school students, and youngsters at a summer program for gifted teenagers. She has written extensively on issues of community art and cultural democracy and is the author of Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades, The World Saying Yes, four chapbooks, and a portfolio of her poems. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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- PublisherNortheastern University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1555534538
- ISBN 13 9781555534530
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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