TEXAS LETTERS Volume 2 is the second installment of an ongoing anthology written by a growing and diverse ensemble of people who have spent months, years, and decades suffering the harsh and unrelenting conditions of solitary confinement in Texas - the state with the largest prison system in America and the most individuals in long-term solitary confinement (with over 500 who have endured these conditions for a decade or longer). Comprising 38 raw, unedited letters by 30 unique voices, Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off, continuing to expose the brutalities of torturous isolation throughout its more than 450 pages.
Proceeds go to the writers featured in the book.
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CONTRIBUTORS
JAMES BROADNAX
BRITNEY GULLEY
TEDDRICK BATISTE
KIERA HENDERSON
ISRAEL CAJAS JR
ROGER UVALLE
KRISTOPHER LOVE
CHARLES MAMOU
DILLION COMPTON
RICHARD DENNIS
KWANETA HARRIS
ALICIA MAYFIELD
ALEXANDRIA FLORES
DAJNA BROWN
SENETRA WASHINGTON
PAUL SLATER
CHARLES D. FLORES
PERRY E. WILLIAMS
CLAYTON MCGUIRE
FIDENCIO VALDEZ
CHELSEY AMOS
JOSEPH COLONE
DAVID KELLY
GUADALUPE CONSTANTE
AARON STRIZ
MONSOUR OWOLABI
DANNY MCDONALD
DENNIS HOPE
BRIAN TUCKER
LUCAS FARMER
PUBLISHER
Damascus James
DESIGN
Lorenzo Ballarini
INFO
453 pp.
numerous black and white photographs
softcover
First Edition, 2024
ISBN:
979-8-218-38251-3
Width: 19.5 cm
Length: 24 cm
Language(s): English
"By amplifying some of those most marginalised and invisibilised to wider society, Texas Letters offers them a voice and archive where their experiences will not be erased, but heard and seen."
- DAZED