[stylist] what are you currently reading?

[Jacqueline Williams]

Vejas,
I have just finished "Crossing the Yard, Thirty Years as a Prison
Volunteer..." by  Richard Shelton. I have met Mr. Shelton once when he
critiqued the poetry of a friend of mine, and they generously let me sit in
on the cession.
He is a professor of Creative Writing, now retired, at the U. of AZ. He
volunteered for thirty years with the prison system, and this is a story of
the harrowing happenings within that system, and the unique criminals he got
to know so well, and how the activity of writing actually created change
within many of this clientele.
It is a heart-rending story, and one I think everyone should read for the
information it imparts about breakdowns of prison populations, the mixing of
them, the brutalities that are magnified because of the system, etc.
Richard Shelton is a poet, well-known in AZ with eight books, many of them
prose, as well as the poetry books to his credit. He was a friend of my
mother's. 
This book is available through NLS
I think it should be required for all, your age, and my age.
Jackie. 

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Hi,
I wanted to know what you guys are reading right now and what you 
think of your books.  Right now I am reading a book called All 
That Matters by Wayson Choy.  It is about a Chinese family living 
in the Chinatown part of British Columbia.  I feel as if the 
quality of the writing is all right, but I find the family very 
interesting.  For example, all of the children call their 
father's second wife "Stepmother", even though 2 of them are 
biologically hers.  I'm mainly reading it for what happens to the 
characters as opposed to the plot.
Have any of you read it?
Vejas

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