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Shelton began organizing creative writing workshops behind bars, and in this gritty memoir he offers up a chronicle of reaching out to forgotten men and women and of creativity blossoming in a repressive environment. He tells of published students such as Paul Ashley, Greg Forker, Ken Lamberton, and Jimmy Santiago Baca who have made names for themselves through their writing instead of their crimes.
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Sara Goldfeder
reviewed Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer on June 23, 2008 Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer
I got this book from the library after seeing this piece on PBS about Richard Shelton's writing workshops in the Arizona State Prison system. href=" Poetry
This is one of those rare books where fascinating experiences meet an outstanding writer.
Richard Shelton writes with passion and humor about his 30 years conducting writing workshops in prison.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"Oh, these men in orange. I've learned more from them than I ever taught them, and it's been good stuff. They never tried to teach me how to hot-wire a car or all that business with spoon and the syringe. They have taught me to be patient; never to whine no matter what; to expect the worst and be happy if I get anything else; to be subversive in the face of unjust, cruel, or stupid authority; to be loyal, to be forgiving, to be kind. They have taught me that we are all law breakers and we are all victims of crime. They have taught me that growing old is no disgrace, but that a youth, wasted in prison, is a disaster."
"'What's it like to be illiterate,' I had asked him....
'It's bad,' he said. 'It's like being inside a big, dark box. All you know is what you need--food, water, drugs, sex, You don't know what's outside the box and you don't know how to find out. You're scared all the time.'"
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Add Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer, Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds. Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the Pied Piper of Tucson in national mag, Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer, Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds. Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the Pied Piper of Tucson in national mag, Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer to your collection on WonderClub |