Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Book Overview

Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith, written by radical Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution."Uncompromising, disturbing . . . Abu-Jamal's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874860865
• ISBN13: 9780874860863
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Must read

Death Bloosoms" picks up where "Live From Death Row" leaves off. Mumia's reflections from family to the system make the reader stop and think about what is really going on. Even after almost 15 years on death row, Mumia has not lost hope or has his will been broken but prison life. This book is not for his supportors only, but for anyone that has any type of social conscience. In some ways this book is a little more heart-drenched than his first, but that is to be expected. When you can actually feel the emotion that the writer is trying to convey, then the writer has succeded in making his point. Now I know that there are many people who think Mumia is guilty, but how can we keep a man a death row when some other man has come forward and confessed to the murder. If anything, Mumia deseves to be freed while an investigation is conducted. This leads you to wonder how fair our judicial system really is if a man cant be freed after someone else has confessed. This book will take you into the depths of hell and give you a first hand look at what life really is like on death row. If this book cant make you re-think you position on capitol punishment, than I dont know what can.

Before the grave closes

Mumia Abu-Jamal gives us here a short but particularly pungent and stringent book. We find in those pages a sensitive man, a resolute human being, a deep believer in life, an optimist about the future and humanity, and yet a realist about the present, the US and American justice. What's new about his approach is that it blends poetry and facts so well that the poetry is the heart of the facts. And we definitely will keep in mind his main argument, or what I consider as such: how can anyone invoke the Christian God to support the most unhumane treatment of some men or women or even children, when Jesus, the Son of God, was treated exactly the same way. How dare they, the self-declared-righteous fake Christians submit any human being to what is the very basis of their own supposed and self-asserted religion? One answer: religion is a sunday entertainment and distraction (they are deranged) for them, and they are basically hypocritical. One reference is missing in the book: social darwinism. The Death Row of any prison in the US or in the world, is nothing but the elimination device of those who are not the fittest, that is to say who are not part of the dominant group of their societies. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU Université of Paris IX and II

an amazing book

This booked filled me with an indescribable feeling. Mumia Abu Jamal has been in jail for over 15 years waiting to be killed, and yet he is still able to write books like this that no doubt have a profound affect on anybody who reads it. It is definitely worth reading. On another note, can i just say that the person who gave this book one star below has got their facts wrong. the things he has claimed are presented in an untrue and very biased manner. to get the real details about the court case and another things surronding Mumia's inprisionment, just do a seach for his name on the net and it will be easy to track down.

Makes you think

"Death Bloosoms" picks up where "Live From Death Row" leaves off. Mumia's reflections from family to the system make the reader stop and think about what is really going on. Even after almost 15 years on death row, Mumia has not lost hope or has his will been broken but prison life. This book is not for his supportors only, but for anyone that has any type of social conscience. In some ways this book is a little more heart-dreaced than his first, but they are both good nonetheless

Blossums in Hell

A book from Death Row. Would it be about bars, death chambers, law and lament I wondered as I took the book from the hands of my friend? No, he reassured me, this is a book about life. I laughed at the irony but began reading. I now wonder what kind of acid the justice system is on to silence and still the intellect, insight and the voice of this modern small-time profit. A book that should be on the stands everywhere. This is no 'for lefties only' publication. Tim Buchanen, Northern Ireland