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THE ESSENTIAL ETHERIDGE KNIGHT [174.129.59.198] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:08 GMT) THE ESSENTIAL ETHERDDGJE KNDGJHT ETHERIDGE KNIGHT University of Pittsburgh Press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260 Copyright© 1986, Etheridge Knight All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knight, Etheridge. The essential Etheridge Knight (Pitt poetry series) I. Title. II. Series. PS3561.N45A6 1986 811'.54 86-6989 ISBN 0-8229-3529-5 ISBN 0-8229-5378-1 (pbk.) Most of these poems have been previously published under the title Born of a Woman (Houghton Mifflin, 1980), and others have appeared in Poetry East, The Am~rican Poetry Review, Hanging Loose, The Mickle Street Review , and The Painted Bride Quarterly. "Circling the Daughter" was first published as a broadside by Slash and Burn Press, Philadelphia. I thank and acknowledge my editor, Ed Ochester, for his ideas and guidance; I thank Lynne Walker, and the poets of the Toledo Poetry Center for support and encouragement; I thank Deta (Salome) Galloway, whose love and support was, and is, a Delight and a Dilemma; thanks to Doug Margolis for typing and suggesting, and for fighting the racism in South Africa; thanks to the Reverend Gerald Cunningham, a Fellow Traveler, for supporting me in too many ways to list; and finally, my thanks-all praises due-to Elizabeth Gordon McKim for the Light of her Love, and for her tidal toleration. [174.129.59.198] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:08 GMT) The publication of this book is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a Federal agency, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Dedicated to my-family my mother, Mrs. Belzora Knight Taylor; my brother, Sgt. Floyd Knight (U.S. Army, retired); my sisters, Clyneese Knight Bennett, Eunice Knight Bowens, and Janice Juanita Knight And to the memory of my father, BuShie; my brother, Charles; and my sister, Lois Ivy Knight ...