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Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
In Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s best known political prisoner, offers poetic observations and reflections on life on this planet and on death row. In this collection of short essays and personal vignettes, which take on everything from spirituality and religion to capitalism and the prison-industrial complex, Mumia ex...more
Paperback, 150 pages
Published
July 1st 2003
by South End Press
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I think this was a 3.5 star. Parts of this were brilliant, but I thought he had a fucked up analysis or lack thereof about Native issues (he plays up the "vanished Indian" rhetoric). And he asks if trans people are "sexual materialist[s:] who [have:] merely purchased a new sexual persona" (32) in an anti-materialistic culture rant. Um, woah there. However there were some really good poems and philosophical and spiritual writings as well. So 3.5 stars.
You'll learn an awful lot awfully quickly by reading this book. Perhaps the thing I liked most about it were the dozens of quotes I walked away with. The wrongfully incarcerated Abu-Jamal is a mix between a modern day Thomas Paine and a better-spoken Che Guevara. I enjoyed every short chapter.
good stuff. but i wanna read other work of his. this one left something to be desired.
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This book is powerful, concise and graphically arresting. Mumia is truly adept at breaking down the political hypocrisies and the possibilities in ways that regular folks (not necessarily academes) can understand.
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Read this one in Kuwait waiting to cross into Iraq at the begining of OIF. Very moving read. A man that is imprisoned reflects upon some of his life's lessons.
Prison writings from Mumia Abu-Jamal. This is a good book to read for anyone interested in the prison industrial complex, death row, or humanity in general.
Mumia has done it again. I appreciate his liberation theology, written in not so many words. Must read for any social activist.
deep Deep Deep. This is a real eye opener, actually any of his books are eye openers.
Only slightly better than Tupac's posthumous poem colection, The Rose that Grew from Concrete.
i read this when i lived 2 blocks from geno's.
not what i expected, but good.
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in the barrios and the favelas,
among those who have least,
beat hearts of hope,
fly sparks of Overcoming. ”
