The Concrete Jungle Bears No Shade: Incarcerated Love and Pain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781637512227)

This is a book about emotions...Ours...theirs...maybe yours...but without a doubt, Cornell Hurley Jr.'s emotions. This is a book about how at the age of twenty-five, he was sentenced to serve twenty-five years in prison. Not willing to accept defeat, he found a way to truly rehabilitate himself. With nothing but time standing between his family, friends, dreams, and freedom, he began to write. While confined within "The Concrete Jungle", he began to express himself through poetry. Poetry has allowed for him to mentally and emotionally escape the confining walls of "The Concrete Jungle" which bears no shade. This is a book about the love and pain that Cornell Hurley Jr. has endured throughout his incarceration. Experience the highs and lows as you thumb through what can only be compared to an emotional rollercoaster. This is a book for poetry lovers, this is a book for the emotionally scared.