This American author, now in his early 40s, was 17 when he was sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP) and sent to die of old age in a California prison. After 22 years of incarceration, an unlikely resentencing led to his eventual release on parole, and now he lives as a free man. These poems arose amidst the chaos of his years in captivity, and he hopes they tell his story well.