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Disguised as a Poem My Years Teaching at San Quentin

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ISBN-10: 155553452X

ISBN-13: 9781555534523

Edition: 2000

Authors: Judith Tannenbaum

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When Judith Tannenbaum last met with her poetry writing class at San Quentin prison, one of the students commented, "Now I'm going to give you an assignment: write about these past four years from your point of view; tell your story; let us know what you learned." This beautifully crafted memoir is the fulfillment of that assignment. In stirring and intimate prose, Tannenbaum details the challenges, rewards, and paradoxes of teaching poetry to maximum-security inmates convicted of capital crimes. Recounting how she and her students shared profound and complicated lessons about humanity and life both inside and outside San Quentin's walls, Tannenbaum tells provocative stories of obsession,…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.58" wide x 8.58" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

JUDITH TANNENBAUM serves as Training Coordinator of the WritersCorps program in San Francisco. For over twenty-five years she has taught poetry to prisoners, primary-age children, continuation high school students, and youngsters at a summer program for gifted teenagers. She has written extensively on issues of community art and cultural democracy and is the author of Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades, The World Saying Yes, four chapbooks, and a portfolio of her poems. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Preface
Acknowledgments
The First Three Months
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
"Endless Echoes of Steel Kissing Steel"
"You Gotta Walk That Lonesome Valley ..."
"Like a Poet"
"In the Very Essence of Poetry There Is Something Indecent"
Long-Term, In-Depth
"To All Mankind They Were Addressed": Godot at San Quentin
"Which Side Are You On?"
"Love Begins Right Here in This Place"
Notes