New Finds

 

June 2016:

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April 2016:

 

 

 

 

The War of Art

By Steven Pressfield
Published: 2002
More Info: http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/
Purchase at your local bookstore.

 

 

 

 

 

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March 2016:

Between the World and Me 

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published: July 14th 2015
More Info: www.penguinrandomhouse.com
Purchase at your local bookstore.

"this book floored me with its ability to make me (someone who has never experienced what its like to be a black man in America) feel not only the physical peril but the subliminal sabotage of mind and heart that racism perpetrates. addressed from Coates to his son, the pages pulse with the poignant tension of a father torn between trying to caution his somewhat less-damaged son about the limits to, or even the fallacy of, his inclusion in the white power structure, and trying to back-off and allow his son to grow up feeling freer and more hopeful than he ever has. this is a book filled with deeply examined social dynamics and rhythmic sloshes of poetry. it has the power to touch the heart of any parent who aches for their child to have the opportunity to surpass them but fears that a heartbreaking disillusionment lies ahead." - Ani

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February 2016:

By Heart Poetry, Prison, And Two Lives 
by Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson 
Published: 2010
More Info:realnessnetwork.blogspot.com
Purchase at your local bookstore.

"the chapters in “by heart” are written alternately by Judith, a poet teaching creative writing for the first time in San Quentin Prison, and Spoon, a prisoner who does not know it yet but who is destined to become a poet himself. Both writers touched me with their bravery and honesty but it is watching Spoon awaken to his life’s purpose and ignite his voice amid hopeless and awful circumstances that becomes the most powerful. Spoon has become a real inspiration to me through his poetry (in the book “longer ago” and in the film “3 poems by Spoon Jackson”) and his blog “realness network”. he will be one of the featured incarcerated writers on the upcoming record “long time gone” by the prison music project: a loose association of artists including zoe boekbinder, myself, and many others in prison and out." - Ani