Crossing the Yard Thirty Years As a Prison Volunteer

Name: Crossing the Yard Thirty Years As a Prison Volunteer
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ISBN: 9780816525959

ISBN-10: 0816525951

ISBN-13: 9780816525959

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Shelton

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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 magazines--shared his brooding verse. But for Shelton, the novelty of meeting a death-row monster became a thirty-year commitment to helping prisoners express themselves. 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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.02" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.748