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Prison Poet's Violent Past and Redemption

By AAN Staff
july 14, 2003  11:22 am
Prison Poet's Violent Past and Redemption
Shaka N'Zinga is a well-known prison poet and intellectual. He was Arthur Wiggins, a violent and psychotic teenager, when he was arrested and convicted for the brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl. Baltimore City Paper's Blake de Pastino talks to the Afrocentric anarchist whose recent "breathtakingly ambitious book," A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live, is "all at once the story of his desperate, dead-stoned days on the streets of Baltimore, an invective against the 'insane design' of the white man, a tirade about the failings of capitalism, and, ultimately, a meditation on the lingering hopefulness of human nature."
View full article at Baltimore City Paper