Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin, credited to Ralph Chaplin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin by Ralph Chaplin. Read in English by Ben Adams Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, these activists were accused of undermining recruiting efforts and the draft - even of encouraging soldiers to desert. Though they never gained the universal popularity of his anthem "Solidarity Forever," the poems and songs in this volume - composed during his four years in prison - represent the defiant attitude of a true rebel in the face of persecution. - Summary by Ben Adams

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
• Author credits: Ralph Chaplin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 1:12:22

Catalogue topics

• anarchism
• socialism
• labor
• Union
• wobblies

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Introduction — 22:32
2. 01 - Mourn Not the Dead — 1:07
3. 02 - Taps — 1:30
4. 03 - Night in the Cell House — 1:23
5. 04 - Prison Shadows — 1:28
6. 05 - Prison Reveille — 1:28
7. 06 - Prison Nocturne — 1:23
8. 07 - The Warrior Wind — 2:08
9. 08 - To Freedom — 1:18
10. 09 - The Vision Maker — 1:28
11. 10 - Distances — 1:19
12. 11 - Phantoms — 0:59
13. 12 - Seven Little Sparrows — 0:57
14. 13 - Salaam! — 4:06
15. 14 - The West is Dead — 1:31
16. 15 - Up From Your Knees — 1:59
17. 16 - The Eunuch — 2:28
18. 17 - I.W.W. Prison Song — 1:55
19. 18 - To France — 1:30
20. 19 - Villanelle — 1:52
21. 20 - Wesley Everest — 1:34
22. 21 - The Industrial Heretics — 1:17
23. 22 - Blood and Wine — 2:27
24. 23 - The Red Guard — 1:15

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