Reviews for Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

The average rating for Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-25 00:00:00 Darko Kelemin I think this was a 3.5 star. Parts of this were brilliant, but I thought he had a fucked up analysis or lack thereof about Native issues (he plays up the "vanished Indian" rhetoric). And he asks if trans people are "sexual materialist[s:] who [have:] merely purchased a new sexual persona" (32) in an anti-materialistic culture rant. Um, woah there. However there were some really good poems and philosophical and spiritual writings as well. So 3.5 stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-09 00:00:00 Ilias Polimeros Had not read much by Mumia before except a couple essays and heard him on radio. I now want to read "Live from Death Row"! He is a writer of flowing poetic prose who mixes crisp clarity with dollops of spirituality, while waxing revolutionary on an assortment of topics. This book is broken into multiple small essays, thoughts, an interview, and a poem or two, with topics touching on MOVE and the spiritual beliefs of John Africa (sacredness of Life, etc.), comparative religions, the horrors of the prison industrial complex, his history of journalism and being in the Black Panthers, along with musings on philosophy. He said some profound things, including a good short essay on the essence of community (a good explanation in a nutshell of the Hillell proverb "If I am only for my self...") as well as a great talk to young people on the level of freedom and opportunity they have at this early stage in their lives, essentially free from the responsibilities of later life and career, etc, so the importance to develop themselves and study and think and enjoy the creativity of their freedom, etc. which I read to my 20 year old. Very short and quick and enjoyable read.