MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03195cam a2200325 i 4500
001 2015000718
003 DLC
005 20150716082624.0
008 150116s2015 txu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015000718
020 $a9781595342553 (paperback)
020 $z9781595342560 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS536.3$b.W685 2015
082 00 $a810.8/006$223
084 $aLAN005000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aWords without walls :$bwriters on addiction, violence, and incarceration /$cedited by Sheryl St. Germain and Sarah Shotland.
264 1 $aSan Antonio, Texas :$bTrinity University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axvii, 265 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Writing programs in prisons and rehabilitation centers have proven time and again to be transformative and empowering for people in need. Halfway houses, hospitals, and shelters are all fertile ground for healing through the imagination and can often mean the difference for inmates and patients between just simply surviving and truly thriving. It is in these settings that teachers and their students need reading that nourishes the soul and challenges the spirit. Words without Walls is a collection of more than seventy-five poems, essays, stories, and scripts by contemporary writers that provide models for successful writing, offering voices and styles that will inspire students in alternative spaces on their own creative exploration. Created by the founders of the award-winning program of the same name based at Chatham University, the anthology strives to challenge readers to reach beyond their own circumstances and begin to write from the heart. Each selection expresses immediacy-writing that captures the imagination and conveys intimacy on the page-revealing the power of words to cut to the quick and unfold the truth. Many of the pieces are brief, allowing for reading and discussion in the classroom, and provide a wide range of content and genre, touching on themes common to communities in need: addiction and alcoholism, family, love and sex, pain and hope, prison, recovery, and violence. These inspirational pieces act as models for beginning writers and offer a vehicle to examine their own painful experiences. Words without Walls demonstrates the power of language to connect people; to reflect on the past and reimagine the future; to confront complicated truths; and to gain solace from pain and regret"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a""An anthology of poems, essays, stories, and scripts by contemporary writers that provides a wide range of content and genre, touching on themes common to communities in need: addiction and alcoholism, family, love and sex, pain and hope, prison, recovery, and violence"--Provided by publisher"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 258-265).
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y21st century.
650 7 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSt. Germain, Sheryl,$eeditor.
700 1 $aShotland, Sarah,$d1982-$eeditor.