Black voices from prison / by Etheridge Knight and other inmates of Indiana State Prison. With an introduction by Roberto Giammanco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Etheridge, 1931-1991.

Contributor:

Giammanco, Roberto, 1926- writer of introduction.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners' writings, American--Indiana.

Prisoners' writings, American.

African American prisoners--Literary collections.

African American prisoners.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Prisons--Literary collections.

Prisons.

Indiana.

Indiana--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pathfinder Press, Inc., 1970.

Contents:

Testament / David Flournoy

Testament / Louis J. Bean

Interview of Charles W. Baker / Charles W. Baker

Testament / Clarence Harris

Another day coming / William Healy

Bittersweet: a recollection / William R. Baker

Rehabilitation and treatment / Joe Martinez

Untitled / George Page

An old-timer looks at 42 years behind walls ; An old-timer, inside 42 years, sees outside / R.L. Moseley

The trip, a one-act play / Clarence Harris

By Etheridge Knight. The idea of ancestry (poem) ; The poor pay more, even for their dreams ; For freckle-faced Gerald (poem) ; The innocents ; Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane (poem) ; Inside these walls ; Cell song (poem) ; The warden said to me the other day (poem) ; A brief history of the Indiana State Prison ; A WASP woman visits a Black junkie in prison (poem) ; Pages from a prison notebook ; He sees through stone (poem) ; The electric chair ; To make a poem in prison (poem) ; The day the young Blacks came ; A time to mourn.

Notes:

"A Merit book."

Cover design: Nelson Blackstock.

Original title: Voci Negre del Carcere, published in 1968 by Gius. Laterza & Figli, Bari, Italy.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing, September 1970".

OCLC:

81234