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Tables of Contents for Doing Time
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Sister Helen Prejean
Introduction
xiii
Bell Gale Chevigny
Acknowledgments
xxxi
INITIATIONS
1
24
Prison Letter
4
1
M. A. Jones
Siempre
5
2
William Aberg
Dog Star Desperado
7
7
William Orlando
How I Became a Convict
14
8
Victor Hassine
Arrival
22
3
Judee Norton
TIME AND ITS TERMS
25
22
Reductions
27
1
William Aberg
Where or When
28
1
Jackie Ruzas
An Overture
28
1
M. A. Jones
Vivaldi on the Far Side of the Bars
29
1
M. A. Jones
Killing Time
30
3
Roger Jaco
After Almost Twenty Years
33
1
Chuck Culhane
There Isn't Enough Bread
34
1
Chuck Culhane
The Manipulation Game: Doing Life in Pennsylvania
35
3
Diane Hamill Metzger
Giving Me a Second Chance
38
4
Larry Bratt
Myths of Darkness: The Toledo Madman and the Ultimate Freedom
42
5
J. R. Grindlay
ROUTINES AND RUPTURES
47
24
Spring
49
1
Michael Hogan
Autumn Yard
49
1
Chuck Culhane
Letters Come to Prison
50
1
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Trina Marie
51
1
Lori Lynn McLuckie
After Lights Out
52
1
Barbara Saunders
poem for the conguero in D yard
53
1
Raymond Ringo Fernandez
In the Big Yard
54
2
Reginald Lewis
Old Man Motown
56
2
Patrick Nolan
The Tower Pig
58
10
Scott A. Antworth
The Night the Owl Interrupted
68
3
Daniel Roseboom
WORK
71
26
Chronicling Sing Sing Prison
73
3
Easy Waters
Cut Partner
76
2
Michael E. Saucier
Gun Guard
78
2
Michael E. Saucier
Skyline Turkey
80
6
Richard Stratton
Suicide!
86
11
Robert Kelsey
READING AND WRITING
97
32
Coming into Language
100
7
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Pell Grants for Prisoners
107
6
Jon Marc Taylor
Tetrina, Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
113
1
Sestina: Reflections on Writing, Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
114
5
Behind the Mirror's Face
119
7
Paul St. John
Black Flag to the Rescue
126
3
Michael E. Saucier
PLAYERS, GAMES
129
46
I See Your Work
131
9
Joseph E. Sissler
solidarity with cataracts
140
2
Vera Montgomery
Clandestine Kisses
142
1
Marilyn Buck
Ryan's Ruse
143
10
Jackie Ruzas
Feathers on the Solar Wind
153
11
David Wood
Death of a Duke
164
11
Dax Xenos
RACE, CHANCE, CHANGE
175
42
First Day on the Job
178
3
Henry Johnson
Eleven Days Under Siege
181
10
Paul Mulryan
Pearl Got Stabbed!
191
5
Charles P. Norman
Sam
196
10
Michael Wayne Hunter
Lee's Time
206
11
Susan Rosenberg
FAMILY
217
28
Ancestor
219
1
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Uncle Adam
220
1
Diane Hamill Metzger
The Red Dress
221
1
Barbara Saunders
Ignorance Is No Excuse for the Law
222
3
Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez
Our Skirt
225
1
Kathy Boudin
The Ball Park
226
2
Henry Johnson
Norton #59900
228
8
Judee Norton
A Stranger
236
1
Anthony La Barca Falcone
After My Arrest
237
1
Judith Clark
To Vladimir Mayakovsky
238
3
Judith Clark
A Trilogy of Journeys
241
4
Kathy Boudin
THE WORLD
245
40
Prisons of Our World
247
1
Allison Blake
Pilots in the War on Drugs
248
7
Robert J. Moriarty
No Brownstones, Just Alleyways and Corner Pockets Full
255
2
J. L. Wise, Jr.
Americans
257
2
Jon Schillaci
For Sam Manzie
259
1
Jon Schillaci
Diner at Midnight
260
1
David Taber
The Film
261
2
David Taber
The 5-Spot Cafe
263
2
Henry Johnson
Melody
265
10
J. C. Amberchele
Mel
275
10
J. C. Amberchele
GETTING OUT
285
16
Dream of Escape
287
1
Henry Johnson
After All Those Years
288
2
Ajamu C. B. Haki
Stepping Away from My Father
290
1
William Aberg
To Those Still Waiting
291
1
M. A. Jones
The Break
292
9
Robert M. Rutan
DEATH ROW
301
21
For Mumia: I Wonder
303
1
Kathy Boudin
Easy to Kill
304
1
Jackie Ruzas
Recipe for Prison Pruno
304
2
Jarvis Masters
Conversations with the Dead
306
2
Stephen W. Anderson
Walker's Requiem
308
12
Anthony Ross
``Write a poem that makes no sense,''
320
2
Judith Clark
Notes
322
3
Text Credits
325
2
About the Authors
327