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Paul
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Chapter 10: Etheridge
Knight (1931-1991)
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November
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Source: EK:
Black Poet from Corinth, Miss.
Contributed by Patricia
Bostian, Central Piedmont
Community College
Etheridge Knight was in prison when
Dudley Randall published his first volume of poetry. Upon his release
from prison, Knight continued to write poet, becoming a major voice
in the 1960s. His poetry helped to create a new aesthetic reflecting
life for black males both in and out of prison.
Primary
Works
Poems from Prison.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968.
Black
Voices from Prison. New York:
Pathfinder Press, 1970; originally published as Voci
Negre Dal Carcere (Bari,
Italy: Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, 1968). PS508.N3 K6
Belly
Song and Other Poems. Detroit:
Broadside Press, 1973.
Born
of a Woman, New and Selected Poems/
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
The
Essential Etheridge Knight.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.
Selected
Bibliography 1980-Present
Nelson, Howard. "Belly Songs: The
Poetry of Etheridge Knight." in Dillard, R. H. W. and Amanda
Cockrell. eds. Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in
English, I: Ammons-Lurie; II: Macleod-Williams. NY: Twayne, 2002.
Sollors, Werner, and Maria Diedrich.
eds. The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American
Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.
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