Freedom of Vision

Everyone's soul yearns to express itself without walls, fences and gates'especially those whose lives came crashing down beneath the weight of their own mistakes of judgment and/or action. In that spirit, Freedom of Vision presents more than 125 poems, essays and stories by current and former convicts from throughout the United States, as well as prison teachers. Their stanzas, tales, experiences and creative imaginations not only take us into the inner world of those serving time...
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Everyone's soul yearns to express itself without walls, fences and gates'especially those whose lives came crashing down beneath the weight of their own mistakes of judgment and/or action. In that spirit, Freedom of Vision presents more than 125 poems, essays and stories by current and former convicts from throughout the United States, as well as prison teachers. Their stanzas, tales, experiences and creative imaginations not only take us into the inner world of those serving time behind bars, but also verifies and celebrates one of the greatest gifts and truths of being human: We all can dream and create ourselves to a higher state of being. For inmates, this is especially true when encouraged and mentored through underappreciated but vital prison teachers, whose presence in this anthology creates a new way to view the rehabilitation and education process.Freedom of Vision brings together the work of award-winning and celebrated authors like Jimmy Santiago Baca, Richard Shelton, Ken Lamberton and Rubin ?Hurricane? Carter, while introducing America to such remarkable voices as Gordon Grilz, Lisa Shannon, Juan Campbell, Linda E. Ricchio'and more than sixty others.