Prisoners is a collection of short narratives told in different voices, about what holds us captive: war, violence, trauma, history, belief, the fear of death. The narratives are thematically linked. The dominant themes of this compact but insightful book are violence and its effects: the ways in which these effects persist, their replication from generation to generation. Much of this book is told through the voices of gang youth, other parts by veterans of a number of wars. Stylistically indebted to such poets as Louis Simpson, Larry Levis, and Ai, in Prisoners Mr. Gold nevertheless establishes his own territory in terms of both content and tone. "The dominant theme - violence - becomes a virus, conveyed down through the generations, or between friends, siblings, or lovers... A whiff of dark humor dances around the macabre and disquieting 'How It Can Happen.' a list of ways people have been known to die... Another acridly funny [piece] is 'Who's Going to Kill Me'... On the whole, Prisoners is intense, evocative, insightful... It is not for sissies"-Tacoma News Tribune
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A ruthless, powerful book. -- Rebecca Brown, The Stranger
Jerome Gold looks into the darkest corners of contemporary life, telling us without mercy exactly what he finds. -- Judith Roche, The Stranger
On the whole, "Prisoners" is intense, evocative, insightful...It is not for sissies. -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Tacoma News Tribune
Jerome Gold looks into the darkest corners of contemporary life, telling us without mercy exactly what he finds. -- Judith Roche, The Stranger
On the whole, "Prisoners" is intense, evocative, insightful...It is not for sissies. -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Tacoma News Tribune
About the Author
Jerome Gold is the author of nine books, including novels (Sergeant Dickinson, The Prisoner's Son, The Inquisitor), a collection of stories, with Les Galloway (Of Great Spaces), and collections of interviews with people in the independent publishing field (Publishing Lives; Obscure in the Shade of the Giants). He has published short stories, essays, poetry and reviews in Left Bank, Chiron Review, Hawaii Review, Poets on the Line, Fiction Review, Boston Review and other literary journals.
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