Freedom of Vision, a collection of poetry, essays, short stories, illustrations and vignettes by more than 70 current and former inmates, will hit bookstores and online sellers in Spring 2007. The collection, co-edited by Stephen Gladish and Robert Yehling, will be published by Koboca Publishing.
Freedom of Vision deals with transformation and redemption. It includes an interview with Hurricane Carter, about whom books have been written and a movie—The Hurricane—has been shown. In addition, there are poems and essays by several decorated authors, including American Book Award winner Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Burroughs Award winner Ken Lamberton. In between two inspiring bookend essays detailing Steve’s teaching in first a women’s prison and then in men’s state prisons, are sandwiched poems, essays, and stories from seventy male and female inmates and ex-offenders from all over the nation. The anthology, conceptualized by Steve, and created in a proposal by Bob Yehling, includes many students either taught or befriended by Steve during 20 years as a creative writing teacher in the state prison systems in Arizona and Ohio.
Sample poems and essays will begin appearing on www.kobocapublishing.com in January. An interview with the editors will be available on www.stephenbgladish.com and www.wordjourneys.com in February.
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When will Freedom of Vision hit the bookstores? And which bookstores will be carrying this edition?
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