Upon This Chessboard of Nights and Days: Voices from Texas Death Row

In this unique book, prisoners on Texas Death Row share their feelings, hopes, fears, and memories with the reader through a series of nonfiction pieces and original art. Excerpts: "But the thing is, I don't want to get out of prison. This life is all I've known for thirty years."--Perry Austin "Death Row has one of the best collections of black widows I've ever seen."--Les Bower ". . . we will remain faceless and nameless inmates with just a number,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933896361
• ISBN13: 9781933896366
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"