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Etheridge Knight From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Etheridge Knight Born April 19 Corinth, Mississippi USA Died March 10 Indianapolis, Indiana USA Occupation ... Prison Writing Influences James Baldwin Langston Hughes Malcolm X Etheridge Knight (born April 19 Corinth, Mississippi - died March 10 Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in with his debut volume, Poems from Prison . The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for robbery in . A prose version was published in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere , and in English as Black Voices from Prison ), which includes other prisoners' writings. Contents Early life Military service Prison Later life ... edit Early life Etheridge Knight was born to a poor rural family in Corinth, Mississippi on April 19 , in which he was but one of seven children. After attending school only until the completion of the 9th grade, Knight decided to drop out at the age of 14. At such a young age, he realized that without an education, his opportunities were limited. In his hometown, he could only find menial jobs such as shining shoes and spent much of his time in bars and pool halls. This took an emotional toll on Knight. Desperate to relieve himself of the despair of reality, he turned to narcotics such as marijuana and cocaine . In an attempt to find himself and a purpose in life Knight decided to join the U.S. Army

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document.write(''); Etheridge Knight African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" Enter your search terms Submit search form Search the Web AALBC.com Thumpers Corner Book Search Home Back Author Home Up ... Advertise Etheridge Knight Click name to order Knight's books Biography Source: The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/lit/POET/eknight.htm Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. Although he dropped out of school at age fourteen, his education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls, and underground poker games. He began to master the art of the toast, a form of long, improvised, humorous poetry that dates back to the 19th century and has its roots in African storytelling. From 1947 to 1951, Knight served in the U.S. Army in Korea, and returning with a shrapnel wound that caused him to fall deeper into a drug addiction that had begun in his youth. In 1960 he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to eight years in the Indiana State Prison. During this time he began writing poetry, and he corresponded with and received visits from such established African American literary figures as Dudley Randall and Gwendolyn Brooks Poems from Prison The book was a success, and Knight soon joined such poets as

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Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) On Knight's Life and Career On Etheridge Knight's Poetry On "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" On "The Idea of Ancestry" ... Online Poems Prepared and Compiled by Cary Nelson Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Etheridge Knight - All poems of Etheridge Kn 1/27/2008 2:15:26 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Etheridge Knight Free Poetry E-Book: 5 poems of Etheridge Knight File Size: 60k File Format: Acrobat Reader To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". Biography Poems Quotations Comments ... Stats Etheridge Knight was born on April 19, 1931 in Corinth, Mississippi. He was one of seven children in a poor family, and only completed a ninth-grade education. Spending many of his adolescent years working in pool halls, bars, and juke joints, he mastered the art of "telling toasts". Toasts are lo .. .. more >> Poems Search in the poems of Etheridge Knight Click the title of the poem you'd like read. A Poem For Myself As You Leave Me Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane The Idea of Ancestry Quotations "convicts rest Like lizards on rocks." "Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet." Comments about Etheridge Knight There is no comment submitted by members..

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Etheridge Knight The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School Major Works Biography of Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Timeline on Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. Related Web Sites Bibliography Major Works Poems from Prison, 1968 The Idea of Ancestry, 1968 2 Poems for Black Relocation Center, 1968 For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide, 1972 A Poem for Brother Man, 1972 Belly Song and Other Poems, 1973 Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1980 The Essential Etheridge Knight, 1986 Etheridge Knight: A Biography by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He was one of seven children born to a poor rural family. Knight dropped out of school at the age of fourteen (Magill 419). but his "education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls and underground poker games" (www.poets.com). When he become seventeen, he joined the army as a medical technical and saw active service in Korea, where he received a scrapnel wound. Treatment for that wound increased his addiction to narcotics. In 1960, he was a robber, and one day he was arrested for snatching an elderly white woman's purse (Magill 419). He was sentenced to ten to twenty years in the state penitentiary (Lumpkin, 203). In jail, he started reading

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ChickenBones: A Journal Home Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.nathanielturner.com What I am saying is that through extension we are humanists in the beginning, but how are you going to love or speak to somebody else if you can’t speak to your own brothers and sisters? Books by Etheridge Knight Poems from Prison Black Voices from Prison Belly Song and Other Poems Born of a Woman ... Essential Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Speaks Black Aesthetic I think the Black Aesthetic differs from the European Aesthetic mainly . . . because it does not separate art or aesthetics from the other levels of life. It does not separate art from politics, art from economics, art from ethics, or art from religion. Art is a functional and a commercial endeavor. The artist is not separate from the people. If you were to trace the separation of art from life historically, you would trace it back to the Greeks when Plato and others made the “head thing” the ideal—reasoning being the ideal—there was a separation between reason and emotion. There was a separation. It is like people trying to separate church and state. How in the hell can you separate church and state? A man’s politics is determined by how he views the world, how he sees God. Aesthetics, to me, means how one sees beauty, truth and love as they relate to all levels of life—not just watching the sunset, but how one’s politics are dealt with and how one’s economics are dealt with. All art stems basically from economics. All the Western dances and all the songs, that people call classical music grew out of formulas—European formulas.

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utmSetVar('lit_all'); Etheridge Knight Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Etheridge Knight 1931–1991 American poet, essayist, editor, and short story writer. INTRODUCTION Knight was one of the most popular poets of the Black Arts Movement, a period during the 1960s of literary and cultural revival for black writers and artists. His work often protested the oppression of blacks and the underprivileged and reflected his experience as an inmate at the Indiana State Prison. He strove for a balance between "the poet, the poem, and the people," deliberately using direct language, slang, and simple poetic techniques to make his work accessible to the greatest possible number of readers. Biographical Information Born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931, Knight dropped out of school after the eighth grade and began frequenting bars and poolrooms. At the age of sixteen Knight joined the United States Army; he served in Korea as a medical technician. During the war he began to use drugs, and by his discharge in 1957 he had become a drug addict, committing crimes to support his habit. In 1960 he was found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to ten to twenty-five years in prison. While incarcerated, he published his first volume of poetry, Poems from Prison.

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Etheridge Knight - (1931-1991) Nashville By Calisha Brooks Tennessee State University, Tennessee I. Introduction Etheridge Knight's prison poetry, by means of its temporal/spatial references and movements, liberates the minds and spirits of his readers, and of his people as a whole. Knight was one of the most popular poets of the Black Arts Movement, a period during the 1960s of literary and cultural revival for black writers and artists. He began writing poetry when he was an inmate at the Indiana State prison. In many of his poems he expressed a desire for freedom and protested the oppression of blacks and the under privileged in "the bigger prison of society." He strove for a balance between "the poet, the poem, and the people." II. Biography Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, and grew up in Mississippi and Paducah, Kentucky with four brothers and two sisters. Quitting school after the eighth grade, Knight did not finish because he wanted to run away from home instead. Later when he was seventeen years old, he joined the army disillusioned and got hooked. Knight served as a medical technical and saw active service in Korea where he received a "psyche, wound." In his book Born a Woman , Knight writes, "I died in Korea from a shrapnel wound, and narcotics resurrected me"(Knight 124). This resurrection led to what Knight called "another death." He was convicted of a 1960 robbery committed in Indianapolis, Indiana to support his drug habit. "I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life" (Knight 180). In prison, Knight says he found a community and it was because of poetry that is what brought him into communion with other people.

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ANTI Q BOOK Search Antiqbook Ask a question or Order this book Browse our books ... Book dealer info KNIGHT, ETHERIDGE. BELLY SONG. Detroit: Broadside Press, (1973.) First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. His second powerful collection of mostly prison poems, with a letter written just before Knight's release from prison as an introduction. 62 pp. Very good+ in illustrated yellow wrappers (peeled spot on front cover from sticker removal, otherwise tight and clean.) ISBN: 0-91029688X US$ 30.00 Offered by: - Book number: 35678 See more books from our catalog: African American Literature Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook. They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. 7 million books at your fingertips! Search all books at Antiqbook

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Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) Contributing Editor: Patricia Liggins-Hill Classroom Issues and Strategies Students often lack the knowledge of the new black aesthetic, the black oral tradition, and contemporary black poetry, in general. I lecture on major twentieth-century black poets and literary movements. In addition, I provide supplementary research articles, primarily from BALF Black American Literature Forum ) and CLA College Language Association Since Knight has read his poems on various college campuses throughout the country, I use tapes of his poetry readings. I also read his poetry aloud and invite students to do likewise, since his punctuation guides the reader easily through the oral poems. Students, black and white, identify with the intense pain, loneliness, frustration, and deep sense of isolation Knight expresses in his prison poetry. They often compare their own sense of isolation, frustration, and depression as college students with his institutional experience. Students often ask the following questions: 1. Why haven't they been previously exposed to this significant poet and to the new black aesthetic?

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Etheridge Knight AfroPoets.Net Famous Black Writers o Home o Poetry Board o PoeticQ.com - Famous Writers Gallery o PoeticSpace.com - MySpace For Poets... Picture Brief Bio Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. He dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and joined the military. While serving in Korea, he acquired a drug habit that followed him back to the states in 1951. In 1960, he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to eight years in the Indiana State Prison. It was there that Knight began writing poetry. He corresponded with other African American poets of the time like Dudley Randall and Gwendolyn Brooks. He published his first book of poetry, Poems From Prison (1968), while he was still incarcerated. His book was a success and afterward he became deeply involved in the Black Arts Movement. Knight's other books and presentations were both popular and critically acclaimed, and throughout his career he received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. He was also one of five Tennessee writers featured in the Memphis Public Library's Talking Leaves video series. Knight earned a bachelor's degree in American poetry and criminal justice from Martin Center University in Indianapolis in 1990, but only one year later in 1991, he died of lung cancer. Poems - 5 in all Etheridge Knight CELL SONG As You Leave Me Feeling Fucked Up The Idea of Ancestry ... MrAfrica@AfroPoets.Net

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