Prison Poetry: New Jersey State Council on the Arts Creative Writing Program
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Trenton: New Jersey Council on the Arts, 1973. Oblong, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. In photo-illustrated card wrappers. 82pp., illustrated throughout text.
Book of poetry of by men incarcerated in Bordentown Correctional Facility, written in 1972 and published just days after the high-profile shootout on the New Jersey Turpike between state troopers and Black Liberation Army members, resulting in the murder of Zayd Malik Shakur and the arrest of Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli.
Introduced by Dan Georgakas (1938-2021), lifelong activist, author of Detroit: I do mind dying, and co-founder of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker with Ben Morea.
Near fine.