Stone Hotel
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Stone Hotel: Poems From Prison by Raegan Butcher is a collection of poetry
by Raegan Butcher
published by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
. The poems record the author's seven years in prison and are influenced by Charles Bukowski
and Edward Bunker
. Clamor
identified Stone Hotel as among CrimethInc.'s best work, calling it a "great start" for Butcher and "commendable in many ways". Published as the first of the CrimethInc Letters series in 2003, the initial print run of Stone Hotel sold out, and the book is now out of print.
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
by Raegan Butcher
Raegan Butcher
Raegan Butcher is an American poet and singer. He is known for his association with the anarchist collective CrimethInc., who published his first two books of poetry, Stone Hotel and Rusty String Quartet. According to a CrimethInc. biography, Butcher was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to...
published by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
CrimethInc.
CrimethInc., also known as CWC , is a decentralized anarchist collective of autonomous cells. CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s, initially as the hardcore zine Inside Front, and began operating as a collective in 1996...
. The poems record the author's seven years in prison and are influenced by Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
and Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker
Edward Heward Bunker was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films....
. Clamor
Clamor (magazine)
Clamor was a bi-monthly magazine published in Toledo, Ohio. The focus of the magazine was alternative culture , often from a politically left-wing perspective....
identified Stone Hotel as among CrimethInc.'s best work, calling it a "great start" for Butcher and "commendable in many ways". Published as the first of the CrimethInc Letters series in 2003, the initial print run of Stone Hotel sold out, and the book is now out of print.
External links
- Free PDF of Stone Hotel from CrimethInc.com (12mbMegabyteThe megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context: bytes generally for computer memory; and one million bytes generally for computer storage. The IEEE Standards Board has decided that "Mega will mean 1 000...
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