WORDS FOR FREEDOM: PRISON POEMS, FROM ANGEL ISLAND TO HANOI HILTON
WORDS FOR FREEDOM: PRISON POEMS, FROM ANGEL ISLAND TO HANOI HILTON
Author(s): Elisabetta MarinoSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Angel Island; Hanoi Hilton; John Borling; prison poems; walls;
Summary/Abstract: This essay sets out to explore two cases in which writing poetry was employed as a strategy to resist the brutality that prisons engender: the case of the lines in Chinese, carved on the walls of the detention barracks on Angel Island, and the case of the poems “tapped” on his cell walls by John Borling, a fighter pilot detained in Vietnam.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 26/2020
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 41-45
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English