The Essential Etheridge Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Etheridge

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Genesis""; ""1""; ""Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane""; ""Cell Song""; ""He Sees through Stone""; ""The Idea of Ancestry""; ""On the Yard""; ""A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison""; ""Haiku""; ""For Freckle-Faced Gerald""; ""The Warden Said to Me the Other Day""; ""My Life, the Quality of Which""; ""A Poem for Black Relocation Centers""; ""2""; ""You Are""; ""The Violent Space""; ""A Poem for a Certain Lady on Her 33rd Birthday""; ""The Stretching of the Belly""; ""As You Leave Me""; ""No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night""

""Upon Your Leaving""""Feeling Fucked Up""; ""Indiana Haiku�2""; ""Vigo County""; ""The Penal Farm""; ""Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis""; ""Indianapolis War Memorial""; ""Harlem""; ""For Langston Hughes""; ""Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life""; ""Another Poem for Me""; ""The Bones of My Father""; ""Evolutionary Poem No. 1""; ""Evolutionary Poem No. 2""; ""3""; ""A Poem for Myself""; ""Report to the Mother""; ""The Sun Came""; ""It Was a Funky Deal""; ""Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine""; ""For Malcolm, a Year After""; ""A Poem of Attrition""

""For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide""""For Mary Ellen McAnally""; ""The Keeping of a Promise""; ""Ilu, the Talking Drum""; ""Poem for the Liberation of Southern Africa""; ""Television Speaks""; ""On Watching Politicians Perform at Martin Luther King's Funeral""; ""4""; ""A Fable""; ""Memo # 9""; ""Memo #32""; ""Memo # 2""; ""Memo #5""; ""Portrait of Mary""; ""My Uncle is My Honor and a Guest in My House""; ""I and Your Eyes""; ""On the Birth of a Black / Baby / Boy""; ""Birthday Poem""; ""Cop-Out Session""; ""A Poem to Galway Kinnell""; ""Missouri Haiku""; ""Boone County""

""Outside St. Louis""""Clay County""; ""Mizzu""; ""Indiana Haiku""; ""Riverside Park""; ""Indiana Avenue, 1949""; ""Indianapolis Winter, 1973""; ""We Free Singers Be""; ""Talking in the Woods with Karl Amorelli""; ""Boston 5:00 A.M.�10/74""; ""A Poem on the Middle East ""Peace Process""""; ""Haiku 1""; ""Memo #43""; ""And Tell Me Poet, Can Love Exist in Slavery?""; ""Green Grass and Yellow Balloons""; ""Belly Song""; ""Apology for Apostasy?""; ""Con / Tin / U / Way / Shun Blues""; ""5""; ""On Seeing the Black Male as # 1 Sex Object in America""; ""Last Words by ""Slick""""; ""Haiku""

""Genesis 11""""Eat Helen B Happy""; ""Various Protestations from Various People""; ""At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play""; ""On the Projects Playground""; ""Circling the Daughter""; ""For a Brookline Lady I Love""; ""Once on a Night in the Delta: A Report from Hell""; ""A Black Poet Leaps to His Death""; ""Rehabilitation & Treatment in the Prisons of America""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822991090

0822991098

OCLC:

607777011