By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

by Spoon Jackson and Judith Tannenbaum

Book Overview

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art.

"A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981559352
• ISBN13: 9780981559353
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: New Village Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"