Fragments from the Cage

Description

Fragments from the Cage is a square-format collection of raw, reflective excerpts drawn from the author’s personal prison journals. Each page holds a sliver of thought, a moment of reckoning, or a whisper of transformation. These fragments aren’t polished essays or finished stories—they’re emotional snapshots of a woman becoming, amidst walls that tried to define her. Visually arresting and emotionally layered, this full-color book is part poem, part memoir, and wholly human. A contemplative companion for anyone navigating the spaces between silence and voice.

Fragments from the Cage isn’t just a book—it’s a reckoning. A gathering of scraps, scribbles, and scattered truths that couldn’t find their way into other projects, or maybe weren’t ready to be seen. These are the margins, the moments, the murmurs from the in-between. This book is part diary, part documentation, and part invitation. I’ll show you what I saw, what I felt, what I tried to make sense of in the confusion of those early days behind bars. And how I view those same things now, nearly twenty years later. But this isn’t just my story. There’s space here for your fragments, too. Some pages ask nothing. Others will ask everything. Write in the blank spaces. Cross things out. Draw if you need to. Rewrite the narrative that was forced upon you. Let this be a place where the pieces—yours and mine—can start to speak.

For the risk-takers, the ones who carry a bold spark into the dark. Those who wander, not to escape, but to seek. For the dreamers who still believe there’s more, even when the walls say otherwise. This is for you. Write your way free.

Features gorgeous images from the Birmingham Museum public domain collection.