Sections 1-4 of the Book of Irving were mostly compiled using what materials I had available in solitary confinement. My goal was to offer a thoughtful, introspective presentation of self while guiding you through the fight for basic rights with a private prison company holding Idaho residents on the Mexican border. Whether I succeeded, I don’t really know. Everything was crazy, including myself.
A few years following the original four sections and I’m feeling a bit better–coming back into my realm. Possessing the same sense of humor, curiosity and clamor for human compassion, I hope I’m now better able to convey the tumultuous aspects of afflictions and corrections. (I personally like to think of this project as an inverted version of “Flowers for Algernon”, but where I introduced myself in the middle at the lowest of points and allow observers to influence my work and convalescence.)
That said, questions are welcome, thank you for visiting, and please explore where my project is adapted in song.
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