INSIDE MY HEAD
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REGINALD SINCLAIR LEWIS is a widely published, award-winning poet, essayist and a playwright on Pennsylvania’s death row. He is the author of two books of poetry. Leaving Death Row Inside My Head - Most Recent |
Books available at: Email: ReginaldLewis2002@yahoo.com |
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Websites: http://www.survivingthesystem.org - Click on Reginald Lewis Home Page
http://www.ccadp.org/ReginaldLewis.htm
In this book of 69 poems, divided into four chapters, I wanted to burrow deep into my soul, through a process of the self-examination of my masculine psyche, my political consciousness and world views--shaped and mortised by my almost two decades long confinement on Pennsylvania's Death Row. The reader is given a front seat on a fast-moving train fleeting through the disconcerted lives of the women in Afghanistan, Death Row, a misguided young black juvenile's dreams, a frustrated would-be actress driven to murder, a bi-racial teen's suicide, my own crack-addicted sister's tortured life--and the tragic events of September 11, 2001, which shocked the consciousness of the nation and the world. Inside My Head is not just another glimpse of the topography of my mind--but raw testimony for readers far beyond these prison walls.
"Reginald S. Lewis' voice is clear, powerful, puncturing through the illusions that all too many of us live in to show us the reality that over two million and growing deal with every day. His power comes from the truth."
--Walidah Imarisha, Award-winning Slam Poet.
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"Inside My Head" was recently voted one of the "Top 15 Non Fiction Books of 2002"!!!
From www.nonfictionreviews.com: Reginald Lewis is a playwright, essayist, and poet who happens to be living on Death Row. Inside My Head, his book of 69 poems, are painful vignettes that depict life for poor men - mostly black - behind prison walls. Those prison walls may or may not be actual walls of brick and concrete. Sometimes they are the prison of poverty, ignorance, and the myths caused by racism and media brainwashing. Very powerful.
See the rest of the review at www.nonfictionreviews.com.
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In this book of 69 poems, divided into four chapters, I wanted to burrow deep into my soul, through a process of the self-examination of my masculine psyche, my political consciousness and world views--shaped and mortised by my almost two decades long confinement on Pennsylvania's Death Row. The reader is given a front seat on a fast-moving train fleeting through the disconcerted lives of the women in Afghanistan, Death Row, a misguided young black juvenile's dreams, a frustrated would-be actress driven to murder, a bi-racial teen's suicide, my own crack-addicted sister's tortured life--and the tragic events of September 11, 2001, which shocked the consciousness of the nation and the world. Inside My Head is not just another glimpse of the topography of my mind--but raw testimony for readers far beyond these prison walls.
"Reginald S. Lewis' voice is clear, powerful, puncturing through the illusions that all too many of us live in to show us the reality that over two million and growing deal with every day. His power comes from the truth."
--Walidah Imarisha, Award-winning Slam Poet.
