BORN OF A WOMAN: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Knight, Etheridge

Poetry

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The Essential Etheridge Knight (Pitt Poetry)

University of Pittsburgh Press

Winner of the 1987 American Book Award The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country’s most prominent and liveliest poets. It brings together poems from Knight’s previously published books and a section of new poems.

The Essential Etheridge Knight (Pitt Poetry Series)

There is a tremendous intellectual ferment among the young black men in U.S. prisons.

Black Voices from Prison

Pathfinder Press

Etheridge Knight began writing poetry while an inmate at the Indiana State Prison and published his first collection, Poems from Prison in 1968. "His work was hailed by black writers and critics as another excellent example of the powerful truth of blackness in art," writes Shirley Lumpkin in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "His work became important in Afro-American poetry and poetics and in the strain of Anglo-American poetry descended from Walt Whitman." Since then, Knight has attained recognition as a major poet, earning both Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations for Belly Song and Other Poems as well as the acclaim of such fellow practitioners as Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Bly, and Galway Kinnell.When Knight entered prison, he was already an accomplished reciter of "toasts"-long, memorized, narrative poems, often in rhymed couplets, in which "sexual exploits, drug activities, and violent aggressive conflicts involving a cast of familiar folk . . . are related . . . using street slang, drug and other specialized argot, and often obscenities," explains Lumpkin. Toast-reciting at Indiana State Prison not only refined Knight's expertise in this traditional Afro-American art form but also, according to Lumpkin, gave him a sense of identity and an understanding of the possibilities of poetry. "Since toast-telling brought him into genuine communion with others, he felt that poetry could simultaneously show him who he was and connect him with other people." In an article for the Detroit Free Press about Dudley Randall, the founder of Broadside Press, Suzanne Dolezal, indicates that Randall was impressed with Knight and visited him frequently at the prison: "In a small room reserved for consultations with death row inmates, with iron doors slamming and prisoners shouting in the background, Randall convinced a hesitant Knight of his talent." And, says Dolezal, Randall feels that because Knight was from the streets, "He may be a deeper poet...

This collection was written by the author while he was an inmate at the Indiana State Prison; the poems focus on imprisonment as a form of modern slavery.

Poems from Prison.

Broadside Lotus Pr

Belly Song and Other Poems

Belly song and other poems

Broadside Press

"From one blood line flows the Poetic Mind." Poets of book contribute their poetic minds to Isabelle Layton Brooks, Mother,and Grandmother. Very artistic Southern lady, who painted when she could only do that on her embroidery and could read a book while knitting a sweater with fingers never dropping a stitch. One of the Authors Anne Brooks Brauer, published writer has a motto" The writer who cannot write or understand poetyr, cannot write at all...poetry is the essence of the wordthat conveys the style and soul of the Author." Brauer too is an artist and writer.

Poems and Annotations: Trilogy

BROOKS, Gwendolyn

Brauer, Anne Brooks

COVERT

AA Books

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