Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg

Author:Avi Steinberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Prison librarians, Social Science, Library & Information Science, Penology, Boston, General, Prison librarians - Massachusetts - Boston, Personal Memoirs, Steinberg, Massachusetts, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Avi
ISBN: 9780385529099
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-19T17:50:56.227000+00:00

clothed in brightness against the night

to make it all go away

but nothing can protect her from Nothing

from the empty seat across the table

the impossible window

the overwhelming sense

her tea has grown cold.

In mourning Jessica this way, I’d found a means of mourning my difficult grandmother, an experience I’d been dreading for as long as I could remember. It clarified something else, as well. That I’d begun to need these writing classes as much as the prisoners who were my students.

After class I went down to my office in the library and did what any semi-repressed Midwest-raised kid would do with such a crush of emotions. I called my mother and provoked an argument about her parking ability. Which expanded into a commentary on her driving skills, before resolving into a critique of her commitment, or lack of, to a proper exercise regimen.

When I paused, she said, “Is that all?”

Could I admit the truth? That I was just calling to hear her voice, because I knew that, at some point in my life, this simple act would be impossible.

“No,” I said instead, “that’s not all. But I gotta get back to work now, ’bye.”

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