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Title:
Prison blossoms : anarchist voices from the American past
Author:
Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936, author.
ISBN:
9780674068186

9780674066618
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (lxiv, 253 pages).
Series:
The John Harvard Library

John Harvard library.
Abstract:
In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the "beautiful ideal" of communal anarchism.
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