Dear Sixties People:
I would like to announce the publication of my new book called The
Prisons. Informed by Piranesi's 1760 illustrations of the same name,
as well as contemporary prison art, legal documents, found language
and personal poems, The Prisons interrogates the dehumanization of
incarceration and explores the intersections between confinement and
the "free" world.
H. Bruce Franklin wrote: "This book ought to come with warning
labels: 'Danger! Explosive Material!'; 'Mind-Altering Substance -Use
with Care'; and, most important of all, 'Do not be captured with this
book in your possession.' The blazing vision of Maggie Jaffe's poems
transforms America's prisons into a Book of Revelations for our
epoch."
And Howard Zinn said: Maggie Jaffe's poems have a rare power and
beauty that says something profound about the world in which we live."
The Prisons can be ordered from Amazon.com or from
Small Press Distribution
http://www.spdbooks.org/
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