@article{1479130,
      recid = {1479130},
      author = {Berkman, Alexander, and Bauer, Henry, and Buettner, Bonnie  Cleo, and Nold, Carl,},
      title = {Prison Blossoms : Anarchist Voices from the American Past  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry  Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania  State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel  tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue  their radical politics and to proselytize among their  fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and  engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners.  On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared  their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine  magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary  series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of  prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among  inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to  come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American  prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets  reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the  ";beautiful ideal"; of communal anarchism.Most of the  ";Prison Blossoms"; were smuggled out of the penitentiary  to fellow comrades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus  of an exposé of prison conditions in America's Gilded Age.  Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century  in an international archive are here transcribed,  translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born  at a unique historical moment, when European anarchism and  American labor unrest converged, as each sought to repel  the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms  peer into the heart of political radicalism and its fervent  hope of freedom from state and religious coercion.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479130},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674066618},
}