<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Inside/Out</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Selected Poems</Subtitle>

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GCDS-9780872865778 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100602660 02 0872865770 03 9780872865778 15 9780872865778 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Inside/Out</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Selected Poems</Subtitle> 1 A01 Buck, Marilyn Marilyn Buck Marilyn Buck's life was dedicated to battling oppression. She began her anti-racist activism as a teen in Texas, organized against the war in Vietnam, and joined the SDS; with other SDS women she helped to incorporate women's liberation into the organization's politics. She fought for self-determination for all people, and she aligned herself with the Black Liberation Movement. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition and was given a ten-year sentence. After serving four years in Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, she was granted a furlough and did not return. The following eight years she was underground.In 1985 Marilyn was recaptured and was convicted of conspiracy for the successful escape of Assata Shakur from her New Jersey prison. (Assata remains active from her exile in Cuba). Marilyn and her codefendents Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Sekou Odinga were also convicted of conspiracy to commit "armed bank robbery" in support of the New Afrikan Independence struggle. In 1988 she was given another ten years in the Resistance Conspiracy case, for "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies (the invasion of Grenada, intervention in Central America) through use of violence" against government and military property. She was imprisoned for over thirty years.Marilyn continued her activism inside of prison. She was deeply involved in cultural and educational activities for all prisoners, and translated for Spanish-speaking women inside. While in prison she contributed articles on prison issues to various journals and anthologies, and she lifted her own voice through poetry for the whole time she was incarcerated. Her poems appeared in anthologies, chapbooks and CDs, and in 2001 she was awarded a PEN American Center poetry prize.Marilyn was released from prison in 2010 and died shortly after from uterine cancer. 2 A15 Meltzer, David David Meltzer A poet at age 11, David Meltzer began his literary career during the Beat heyday in San Francisco and early on took his poetry to jazz for improv wonders, which he continues to astound listeners with today. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including The Clown, The Process, Arrows: Selected Poetry, 1957 - 1992, No Eyes: Lester Young, Beat Thing, and David's Copy. City Lights in San Francisco published his most recent book, When I Was A Poet, as # 60 in the Pocket Poet's Series. He has also published fiction and essays including Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook and has edited numerous anthologies such as Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz, and San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets. David Meltzer composed, performed and recorded as a singer/songwriter during the 60s and 70s; albums include Serpent Power and Poet Song. He taught in the Humanities and graduate Poetics programs at the New College of California in San Francisco for 30 years. He is now performing in and around the Bay Area with his wife, poet Julie Rogers. In 2011 he will receive the SF Bay Guardian's Lifetime Achievement Award. 01 eng 128 01 Marilyn Buck was a committed political radical, imprisoned for over thirty years for her revolutionary activities. She was also a prolific writer and poet, publishing her work in a prize-winning chapbook, an audio CD, and in various journals and anthologies. She received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001.Buck was released from prison less than a month before her death at age sixty-two from uterine cancer. This selection of her finest poetry is a living testament to the fierce intelligence and huge compassion that inspired and informed her life, and to the transcendence of her poetic vision."Marilyn, of course references her situation in prison in many poems, but the overwhelming sense one has after reading Inside/Out is that one has just experienced a woman who, though imprisoned, is utterly free. What we have in Marilyn Buck is a poet who is unafraid to confront the deepest parts of herself with an honesty consistent with the consciousness of a revolutionary. It is the uncovering and revealing of hope that many of her works manifest." - Jack Hirschman, poet laureate of San Francisco"This is an important book on so many levels... it models a degree of resistance most of us are never called upon to develop."-Ms. Magazine"With the grace of Lucille Clifton and the force of June Jordan, Buck establishes undeniable presence. Courageous and compelling - make room for some new 'survival code'."-The Brooklyn Rail"Though it is unclear from Buck's writing what place organized religion had for her after she left home, these pages contain prayers, answers, wise and generous gifts."-The Rumpus 02 Just published! The first-ever collection of Marilyn Buck's poetry, searing, soaring, a living tribute to her indomitable spirit, revolutionary intelligence, and poet's vision. 08 "...though it is unclear from Buck's writing what place organized religion had for her after she left home, these pages contain prayers, answers, wise and generous gifts."-Barbara Berman The Rumpus 08 "With the grace of Lucille Clifton and the force of June Jordan, Buck establishes undeniable presence. Courageous and compelling - make room for some new 'survival code'."-The Brooklyn Rail The Brooklyn Rall 08 "Another shimmery link on the chain of poetic resistance... [Buck's] poems are about light, being cut off from nature in prison..., loneliness, the refusal of desire, physical touch that isn't possible, and the joy and escape she is able to find in a place so khaki and drab."-Jade Brooks Make/shift 08 "...There are some writers-Karen Blixen, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston-whose lives are so unusual that an appreciation of their work deepens with an acquaintance with the life. Buck's work can best be appreciated in terms of her commitment to anti-imperialist activism and her internment in federal prisons for nearly three decades. She somehow managed to find, in that harsh confinement so unfamiliar to most of us, meaning and friendship, and she imparted to the world through her work, moments of insight, consolation, and joy..."-Martha Gies, Women's Review of Books Women's Review of Books 08 "There are no apologies here, no appeals for special consideration. As she rejected white-skin privilege in life, binding herself to oppressed people in words and deeds, Marilyn Buck sought no deathbed, deus ex machina salvation from prison, cancer, or the condemnation of the self-righteous... Inside/Out is a special gift, long dreamed-of."-Mariann G. Wizard The Rag Blog 08 "This is an important book on so many levels. First, of course, because it contains a number of excellent poems, more than most poetry collections published today. Second, because it models a degree of resistance most of us are never called upon to develop. And third, because it reminds us of the many, many lives limited or cut short by a pompous, uncaring system that is more interested in bullying than redemption." 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