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Etheridge Knight (b. April 19, 1931, Corinth, Mississippi--d. March 10, 1991, Indianapolis) was an African-American poet who burst onto the scene inside 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from either Prison. A book recalls withinside verse his eight-month-long phrase when Etheridge was arrested for robbery in 1960. The prose version was published in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere, & inside English as Black Voices from Prison (1970), which includes other captive' writings. Stomach Song & More Verse form (1973) dealt with themes of racism & love. Knight believed the poet was a "meddler" or even intermediator between a verse form & a reader. He elaborated on this conception within his 1980 work Born of the Woman. A Essential Etheridge Knight (1986) is a compilation of Knight's act. Knight was married to fellow poet Sonia Sanchez.
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Etheridge Knight An Academy of American Poets poetry "exhibit," including a brief biography and an audio recording of the poet reading one of his poems. |
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