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- The Essential Etheridge Knight
- Book
- 1986
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Seminal African American poet Etheridge Knight did not begin writing poetry until a robbery conviction sent him to prison in 1960. A Korean War veteran who suffered a shrapnel wound that led to drug addiction, Knight published his first collection in 1968, Poems from Prison, which set him apart as an important new voice in the Black Arts Movement. His second collection, Belly Songs and Other Poems (1973), earned him Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations, and his third collection, Born of a Woman: New and Selected (1980), was also critically acclaimed. The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country’s most prominent and still-relevant poets, decades after his death. It brings together poems from Knight’s three previously published books and a section of later poems available only in this collection, which features a striking new cover.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- 1
- HE SEES THROUGH STONE
- pp. 12-13
- THE IDEA OF ANCESTRY
- pp. 14-24
- ON THE YARD
- pp. 14-25
- FOR FRECKLE-FACED GERALD
- pp. 19-30
- THE WARDEN SAID TO ME THE OTHER DAY
- pp. 20-31
- MY LIFE, THE QUALITY OF WHICH
- pp. 21-32
- A POEM FOR BLACK RELOCATION CENTERS
- pp. 22-33
- THE VIOLENT SPACE
- pp. 26-27
- THE STRETCHING OF THE BELLY
- pp. 29-40
- AS YOU LEAVE ME
- pp. 30-41
- UPON YOUR LEAVING
- pp. 32-33
- FEELING FUCKED UP
- pp. 34-45
- INDIANA HAIKU-2
- pp. 35-46
- FOR LANGSTON HUGHES
- pp. 36-47
- ANOTHER POEM FOR ME
- pp. 39-50
- THE BONES OF MY FATHER
- pp. 40-41
- EVOLUTIONARY POEM NO. 1
- pp. 42-53
- A POEM FOR MYSELF
- pp. 45-56
- REPORT TO THE MOTHER
- pp. 46-57
- THE SUN CAME
- pp. 47-58
- IT WAS A FUNKY DEAL
- pp. 48-59
- DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE
- pp. 49-60
- FOR MALCOLM, A YEAR AFTER
- pp. 50-61
- A POEM OF ATTRITION
- pp. 51-62
- FOR BLACK POETS WHO THINK OF SUICIDE
- pp. 52-63
- FOR MARY ELLEN McANALLY
- pp. 53-64
- THE KEEPING OF A PROMISE
- pp. 54-65
- ILU, THE TALKING DRUM
- pp. 55-56
- TELEVISION SPEAKS
- pp. 59-70
- PORTRAIT OF MARY
- pp. 66-77
- I AND YOUR EYES
- pp. 69-80
- ON THE BIRTH OF A BLACK I BABY I BOY
- pp. 70-71
- BIRTHDAY POEM
- pp. 72-83
- COP-OUT SESSION
- pp. 73-84
- A POEM TO GALWAY KINNELL
- pp. 74-75
- MISSOURI HAIKU
- pp. 76-87
- INDIANA HAIKU
- pp. 77-88
- WE FREE SINGERS BE
- pp. 78-90
- BOSTON 5:00 A.M.-10/74
- pp. 82-93
- GREEN GRASS AND YELLOW BALLOONS
- pp. 86-87
- BELLY SONG
- pp. 88-91
- APOLOGY FOR APOSTASY?
- pp. 92-103
- CON/TIN/U/WAY/SHUN BLUES
- pp. 93-94
- LAST WORDS BY "SLICK"
- pp. 98-109
- GENESIS 11
- pp. 102-113
- EAT HELEN B HAPPY
- pp. 103-114
- VARIOUS PROTESTATIONS FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE
- pp. 104-115
- ON THE PROJECTS PLAYGROUND
- pp. 108-119
- CIRCLING THE DAUGHTER
- pp. 109-120
- FOR A BROOKLINE LADY I LOVE
- pp. 110-121
- A BLACK POET LEAPS TO HIS DEATH
- pp. 112-113
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- pp. 126-127
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822991090
Related ISBN(s)
9780822935292, 9780822953784
MARC Record
OCLC
607777011
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1986