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A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison - Hardcover

Betts, R. Dwayne

 
9781583333488: A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison

Synopsis

An ex-con author describes his realization that he really was not going home from prison any time soon; confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and justice; and relates his quest for identity one that guaranteed his survival in jail and incorporated an understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his crime.

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About the Author

R . DWAYNE BETTS

is graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship. Shortly after his release from prison, The Washington Post published a feature article about him and a book club he founded for at-risk young men called YoungMenRead. He teaches poetry at several public schools in the D.C. metro area, has had his poetry published in many national literary journals, and contributed an essay to the anthology ItÂ’s All Love.

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