Description
Exiled Voices, Portals of Discovery is a revealing literary work of fourteen imprisoned writers. Here is no collective protest of wrongful conviction and imprisonment but thoughtful, sometimes startling, creations by fourteen gifted writers about remembered youth, the world of nature, missed opportunities, enforced tedium, and the violence that lurks within prison walls. They touch deep wellsprings and illuminate a world of loss.
Lou Jones, author of Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row, returned inside intimidating prison walls to capture striking portraits of the writers. These along with the thought-provoking introduction by Robert Johnson, and the sensitive observations by Susan Nagelsen comprise a groundbreaking vision of a world obscured behind high walls.
Reviews
"Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery is a powerful book. This stunning collection of essays, poems and fiction written by prisoners should help us to focus attention not only on the talent of the artists but on the conditions of their confinement. Our lack of humanity and intelligence in our criminal justice system is a national disgrace—and a needlessly costly one—which finds its nadir in the conditions which prevail in many of our prisons. Exiled Voices should make its readers ashamed of what we are allowing to happen."
Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Former Attorney General of the United States Co-chair, The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons
"Exiled Voices introduces the diverse voices and talents of more than a dozen writers whose lives are lived behind bars. Theirs are voices that too often go unheard, unrecognized. This collection is brave, powerful, and a wake up call—we all must attend to each other as human beings and to the social and justice systems that too often seek to silence those who dare speak out.
A.M. Homes, author of The End of Alice, Music for Torching, and The Mistress’s Daughter