Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those laughs, I'd have been dead years ago"), Ruggles wrote out atonal works with crayon on brown wrapping paper. Though he was a notoriously slow worker and a painstaking perfectionist-only eight pieces that require a total of 90 minutes to perform survive him-his sober tone poem Sun Treader is considered a modern masterwork...
...response. The response did not come in Watts, but at Attica. There, men knew the pressures that had been applied to break Jackson, for they also lived with them. There, there was a man--perhaps several--who had written in his notebook the lines from Claude McKay's poem quoted above...
...begins a sonnet by the black poet Claude McKay. Although the poem was first published in 1922, it embodies much of George Jackson's attitude towards his imminent death during the last 18 months of his life. During that period, Jackson was confined first in the maximum security block of Soledad and then, after obtaining a change of venue that transferred his trial from Monterey to Marin County, in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin. Held in close confinement in prison, chained when he was taken out to appear in court. Jackson became less of a prisoner during this time...
Characteristic of this assumption was a segment from Time Magazine's article on Attica. The segment said that the more militant prisoners at Attica "passed around clandestine writings of their own; among them was a poem written by an unknown prisoner, crude but touching in its would-be heroic style." In an insert, Time printed the first stanza of this "would-be heroic" find...
...custody. To do his time as unobtrusively as possible is also the wish of the average inmate. He seeks only to survive his sentence, accumulate clean time and leave. Escape is on his mind, but it is seen more as a moral right than as a viable alternative. A poem by Ethridge Knight, a black writer who did eight of a 20 in the Indiana State joint at Michigan City, describes one of the most powerful deterrents to escape...