PRISON POETRY ~ TOASTS drugs SLANG Toasts ~ Seymour Fiddle ~ RARE

Description: Toasts, images of a Victim Society Seymour Fiddle [New York] : Exodus House, 1972. RARE no copies online only one in a collection. Paperbound wraps tape spine ; owner name bookplate inside cover a date penned at bottom ; 72 pages. TOASTS TOASTING underworld criminal drug addiction (heroin, narcotics ...) prison poetry slang lingo ... study and poetry. TOASTS : KING HEROIN, JIMBO THE JUNKIE, PIMP AND HIS BROAD, LONG SHOE SAM AND COCAINE SMITTY ... See contents listed after partial text from introduction: Toasts were ballads, genorally composed by and transmitted by others from prison to prison to generation. Not all toasts, perhaps not a m written by and for addicts, but the slender out able to collect, expressly concerning drug user iences, revealed the profound sense of alienati narcotic addict from legitimate society. These toasts were composed to entertain fc Their language reflected the fact that most of (recited) them were black. Only a small propoj I have met might be classed as readers» able t< toasts in their entirety. They were generally much time in prison during their career on druj men personally had transcribed toasts onto pap< toasts were part of an oral folk tradition, pa: life within the addict culture. Indeed I was . the place of these toasts in the life of the a to local hospitals. I would be asked by patie. patients would sit around a tape recorder list of a set of toasts, at least one of,them would of his own. I had the feeling I was an anthro folklore. Their oral quality meant that these toast to fallibility of recall. I have been able tc versions of the same toasts; sometimes only ti Introduction 4 ' Toasts were ballads, generally composed by anonymous prisoners,, and transmitted by others from prison to prison, and generation to generation. Mot all toasts, perhaps not a majority, v/erc written by and for addicts, but the slender output I have been able to collect, expressly concerning drug users and drug exper- iences, revealed the profound sense of alienation of the male narcotic addict from legitimate society. These toasts were composed to entertain fellow prisoners. Their language reflected the fact that most of those - who read (recited) them we re black. Only a small proportion of the addicts I have met might be classed as readers, able to recite several toasts in their entirety. They were generally man who had served much time in prison during their career on drugs. Although some men personally had transcribed toasts onto paper, basically the toasts were part of an oral folk tradition, part of the social life within the addict culture. Indeed I was able to verify the place of these toasts in the life of the addicts during visits to local hospitals. I would be asked by patients who knew about patients would sit around a tape recorder listening to a tape of a set of toasts, at least one of. them would" come up with something of his own. I had the feeling I was an anthropologist recording folklore. Contents: fable of Contents Page Introduction (1) Phenomenon Vs. Noumenon 1 (2) Hyperbolic Conduct and Speech & (3) The Celebration of Sensuality and Materialism 11 (4) The Male Addict's Helplessness 13 (5) The Pressure Cooker Life 14 (6) Dov/nward Mobility and Unfrcedom 15 Textual Analyses 13 Dariella Du Fontaine 20 A Victim of Circumstances 24 The Tropics 26 A Comment 27 Appendix 29 Toasts 29 King Heroin 29 Dariella Du Fontaine 31 Honky Tonk Bud . _ r 37 Lonr.shoe Sam and Cocaine Smitty|^>M^^ (Wei 43 The Tropics 47 J ir.iba The Junkie 49 The Fall 51 Untitled y 1 56 Coco Joe's 57 Good Doin* Wheeler 0 60 The Pimp and His Broad 65 Untitled # 2 Q DtfriV 4 66 Dear John 69 Footnotes And Addenda 69

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