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Title: Gray Air : Poems From Prison: 1983-1999 (Poetry) by Christopher Presfield, Deborah Small ISBN: 1-891812-15-7 Publisher: Cedar Hill Publications Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: One of the "Cons" (Pun Intended) of the century!!
Comment: Hayden Carruth's review of "Christopher" Presfield's "Gray Air..." is both insightful and amusing.
Granted, Mr. Presfield is a somewhat talented poet. His IQ is far greater than the norm. The fact is, had he chosen to persue a more constructive life, the sky might have been the limit. Alas, he chose otherwise.
At the age of 13 he decided that breaking into pinball machines and stealing nickles in Harrison, Arkansas was the thing to do. Haven't quite figured out why. Guess he just needed some nickles.
Rather than learning from his mistake, he chose to expand on his endeavors. Burglaries, drugs (using and dealing), auto theft (his own father's car}, and on and on.
His father actually cried on my shoulder on two occasions, wondering what he, as a father, must have done wrong in raising him. The fact is, he had done nothing wrong.
Frank, his dad, was driven to a far too early grave due to "Christopher's" exploits.
Mr. Carruth's review was written on January 31, 1999. In January of 2002 "Christopher" presented himself at my doorstep, after having been "in recovery" for the past six years (9 years by that time). His purpose? He needed a hundred bucks to get back to San Diego, from Las Vegas, so that he wouldn't be in violation of his parole. I gave it to him and he proceeded to go downtown, gamble it away, head south towards Kingman, AZ, and wreck his car. He had the gall to call his mother back in Arkansas and ask her to ask me to send him another $500.00. Quite a guy!!
His mother was financially solvent upon the death of his father. He begged her for money to pay for lawyers. She sold the largest portion of her property to enable him, to no avail. She hocked her car, to no avail. Today, she is, for all intents and purposes, at nearly 80 years old, destitute, still working 6 days a week, barely able to walk, and on the verge of losing her home, all due to "Christopher's" exploits. By the way, "Cedar Hill Publications" came into being due to his mother's refinancing her car. How sick!!
I suppose most folks reading this have guessed it. "Christopher" is my younger brother. Buddy and Frank are our older brothers, and they feel the same as I do. "Chris" decided, at some point, that "Christopher" would garner more attention. Somehow, that seems to tell you something about him.
By the way, Mr. Carruth, where did you get your bio info? "Raised in the Ozarks"? Fact: He was 3 years old when he moved there and 13 years old when first incarcerated. Hardly what one would consider "raised". "Educated" in the mean streets of Manhattan's lower East Side and San Diego's Barrio Logan? Educated?? Doesn't say much for the education system, does it? Educated in crime? Yeah, I'll buy that.
Twenty years "Touring" America's prison-industrial complex? Touring? How interesting. How kind of the American Judicial System to have provided such an informative tour. Sure glad he didn't commit any crimes in the interum.
Gee, I've been given 20 years (for what, by the way). Don't have much else to do, so maybe I'll write a little poetry about what it's like live in "Gray Walls". Maybe someone like Haden Carruth with notice.
Poetry written by convicts is nothing more than poetry writen by "convicts". Chris is a convict, a criminal. Plain and simple. He's still, after all these years, trying to be someone that he's not.
I swear to God, for the sake of society, I hope he spends the rest of his days behind "Gray Walls".
Howard "Dwight" Presfield
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