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About this Book:
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This chapbook is a collection of short stories and poems, paired to provide a framework for each. I did not begin writing either stories or poems until I was incarcerated in a federal prison.
I determined to write a chapbook that would be entertaining, but at the same time one which would stimulate a broader understanding of the lives of prisoners. It was not my intention to start a revolution or castigate those who operate the criminal justice system, neither did I wish to develop an apology for those incarcerated in that system.
When I started writing this chapbook, I posted a note before me to keep me focused on what I hoped to accomplish. That note reads:
‘This is a book about how it feels to be accused, investigated, committed, alienated, punished, stigmatized, separated, abused, demeaned, and virtually enslaved."
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About the Author:
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This writer has had an adventurous life, having visited all 50 of the United States and more than 60 foreign countries.
<sum> He has resided in Canada, Japan, and South Africa.
<sum> He was one of the first soldiers to enter Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the atomic blasts of World War II.
<sum> He was the first white student to break the color barrier at the all-black Atlanta University.
<sum> He visited the Amazon interior at the site of the murder of seven missionaries.
<sum> He survived rebel fire in Havana, the week prior to Castro taking power.
<sum> In the mid-sixties, he survived an ambush during the massacres in the Congo.
He has been a college profession, vice-president and president and holds two doctorates; one in the Sociology of Religion and one in Higher Education.
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