{"product_id":"when-the-smoke-cleared-9781478018940","title":"When the Smoke Cleared","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Smoke Cleared contains poetry written by incarcerated poets in Attica Prison and journal entries and poetry by Celes Tisdale, who led poetry workshops following the uprising there in 1971.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhen the Smoke Cleared\u003c\/i\u003e . . . beautifully documents what it means to bear witness while teaching, and the great responsibility that comes with ushering voices from the inside of prison walls to the outside. . . . \u003ci\u003eWhen the Smoke Cleared\u003c\/i\u003e is a time capsule of the sharp minds, open hearts, and courageous souls of men brutalized by the United States criminal justice system.\" -- Malcolm Tariq * PEN America *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhen the Smoke Cleared\u003c\/i\u003e . . . reveals a great deal about survival in the wake of state violence and about the uses of prison education. . . . Supporting efforts like Tisdale’s are important, not because they reform the institution, but because they can aid incarcerated people in building inside-outside relations and solidaristic organizing across facilities.\" -- Elias Rodriques * Dissent *\u003cbr\u003e\"Among the many strengths of this anthology is a blunt acknowledgment of the uprising as part of much larger historical mechanisms: namely, the last gasps of the civil rights movement and the nation’s violent reaction to Black liberation. . . . The poems serve as a bulwark against the forgetting of the Attica uprising itself, but they also document the inner life and creative expression of the incarcerated—making for a visceral and intimate argument in favor of prison abolition.\" -- J. Howard Rosier * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"A riveting contribution to contemporary literary history and recent social histories of the uprising. This volume poses far-reaching questions about prisons as sites of cultural production and the mobilization of Black political subjectivity at the beginning of what we now call the age of mass incarceration.\" -- David Sherman * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable glimpse into the beginnings of prison and justice writing programs in the US, especially ones focused on the African American experience, as well as a reminder of the historical and continued importance of such workshops in transforming the US carceral system.\" -- Timothy Bradford * World Literature Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Celes Tisdale’s Poetry Workshop at Attica \/ Mark Nowak  1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the Original Printing of \u003ci\u003eBetcha Ain’t: Poems from Attica\u003c\/i\u003e (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974 \/ Celes Tisdale  25\u003cbr\u003e Betcha Ain’t: Poems from Attica  29\u003cbr\u003e Celes Tisdale’s Attica Poem and Journals  71\u003cbr\u003e When the Smoke Cleared: More Poems from Attica  103\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Remember This  133\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  135\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Workshop Documents  137","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409009746263,"sku":"9781478018940","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018940.jpg?v=1730505076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-the-smoke-cleared-9781478018940","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}