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Title: Stone Hotel: Poems from Prison by Raegan Butcher ISBN: 0-9709101-2-6 Publisher: Crimethinc.Workers Collective Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rise and Shine
Comment: If the offerings of "Reality TV" have put you to sleep, this book is your wake-up call. The cycle of descent, purgatory, endurance, and ultimate perseverence reflected in this work is as close as most will want to come to experiencing the harsh reality of prison life. Not for the faint-hearted, Stone Hotel is a graphic and moving (in many directions) depiction of the harrowing nightmare of incarceration. However, unlike numerous other works on the topic, the author does not seek sympathy or embody the role of "victim" -- a refreshing change from the typical fare in this age of "Not My Fault". Lyrical and gripping, this work is difficult to put down, and dispelling its dark imagery from the mind is even harder.
Rating: 5
Summary: flowers from the gutter
Comment: if charles bukowski had spent 7 yrs in prison he might've written a book like this; by turns sardonic, tough, witty, angry, and with an underlying sadness, it is a major accomplishment from an important new voice in american poetry. STONE HOTEL takes the reader on a tour of hell but never preaches or complains or fails to enlighten the reader about what life in a modern american prison at the end of the 20th century is like. this is an important book. i couldn't put it down!
Rating: 5
Summary: Inmate in the Stone Hotel
Comment: I encounter a lot of trite writing posing as poetry. Often I read or hear poems that are so bad I squirm in embarrassment on behalf of the author. Having been subjected to many poorly contrived pieces, I was surprised and exhilerated when I began reading Stone Hotel: Poems From Prison by Raegan Butcher. I was sucked in, immediately hooked by the dramatic pictures painted by Butcher--often in few words, but always in vivid detail.
Butcher uses his words to tell the stories of his life, starting with the armed robbery he was convicted for in 1996. He takes his audience through his arrest, the suicide watch he's placed on, the mental ward he's confined to, his conviction, and his transfer to prison. The last line of "Prisonbound" reads, "i had 2,555 days to go." In addition to details of those 2,555 days, the book's next 86 pages are filled with Butcher's hopes, dreams, fears, and desires.
I particularly appreciate Butcher's straight-up honesty. He manages to write about his love for his young daughter and of romance lost without seeming sappy or fake. No matter what he writes about, he doesn't sugarcoat or pretend.
My favorite pieces are his brief and pointed descriptions of inmates he encounters. These poems are as short as eleven words, but they speak volumes. Butcher makes each word count.
This book illuminates a skill and talent that goes beyond sharing the details of life in prison, although (according to my friends behind bars) Butcher does that well. The greatest beauty here is that Butcher puts words together in ways that shock and delight. Consider the final words of the final poem in Stone Hotel: "i've walked thru hell/ wearing gasoline shoes." That's a whole world of meaning in only ten syllables.
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Title: Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners by Paul F. Maul, Crimethinc Workers Collective, CrimethInc. Workers' Collective ISBN: 097091010X Publisher: Crimethinc.Workers Collective Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Evasion ISBN: 0970910118 Publisher: Crimethinc.Workers Collective Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Off the Map by Kika Kat, Hib Chickena ISBN: 0970910134 Publisher: Crimethinc.Workers Collective Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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