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Iron house; stories from the yard Hardcover - 1994

by Washington, Jerome

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Fort Bragg, CA: QED Press, 1994. Hardcover. [viii], 166p., personal inscription by the African American writer, first printing, very good hardcover in dj. Washington, incarcerated in New York prisons for many years, received national recognition for his poetry and his play, THE BOYS IN CELLBLOCK "C". He was released after a campaign by a number of New York area writers. This fourth book won the 1994 Western States Arts Federation Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.
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  • Title Iron house; stories from the yard
  • Author Washington, Jerome
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher QED Press, Fort Bragg, CA
  • Date 1994
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 205856
  • ISBN 9780936609331 / 0936609338
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.78 x 0.69 in (21.59 x 14.68 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (State) - Social conditions, Prisons - Literary collections
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94010662
  • Dewey Decimal Code 365.440

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From the jacket flap

In telling the story of the forgotten men in America's prisons, Jerome Washington reveals the root of our national delusion: a shortsighted view of security that has led to violence and desperation on the streets and in the prisons. Men behind bars pass the time by engaging in hopeless fantasies, humiliating power plays, and sheer cruelty. Washington shows us that the line between their lives and ours is nonexistent. With humor by turns gentle and biting, he portrays the confusion and indifference that have brought us to regard the imprisoned as the disposable trash of a throwaway society.

While incarcerated in the New York State prison system, Jerome Washington received a fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts for his play The Boys in Cellblock "C." Jerome was a member of PEN American Center's Prison Writing Committee and Poets and Writers, and served on the boards of directors of the Coalition for the Creative Arts and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (Western Region). Iron House was his fourth book.

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  • Booklist, 10/15/1994, Page 380
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/15/1995, Page 853
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/1994, Page 1205
  • Library Journal, 09/15/1994, Page 81
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/08/1994, Page 408

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