The Essential Etheridge Knight

The Essential Etheridge Knight
Title The Essential Etheridge Knight PDF eBook
Author Etheridge Knight
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages 103
Release 1986-12-15
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0822991098

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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.

Lighthead

Lighthead
Title Lighthead PDF eBook
Author Terrance Hayes
Publisher Penguin
Pages 114
Release 2010-03-30
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1101222883

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Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

Understanding Etheridge Knight

Understanding Etheridge Knight
Title Understanding Etheridge Knight PDF eBook
Author Michael S. Collins
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Pages 157
Release 2013-01-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611172632

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Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison sentence, to publish five volumes of poetry and a small cache of powerful prose. His status in the front ranks of American poets and thinkers on poetry was acknowledged in 1984, when he won the Shelley Memorial Award, which had previously gone, as an acknowledgement of "genius and need," to E.E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. S. Merwin. In this first book-length study of Knight and his complete body of work, Michael Collins examines the poetry of a complex literary figure who, following imprisonment, transformed his life to establish himself as a charismatic voice in American poetry and an accomplished teacher at institutions such as the University of Hartford, Lincoln University, and his own Free Peoples Poetry Workshops. Beginning with a concise biography of Knight, Collins explores Knight's volumes of poetry including Poems from Prison, Black Voices from Prison, Born of a Woman, and The Essential Etheridge Knight. Understanding Etheridge Knight brings attention to a crucial era in African American and American poetry, and to the literature of the incarcerated, while reflecting on the life and work of an original voice in American poetry.

To Float in the Space Between

To Float in the Space Between
Title To Float in the Space Between PDF eBook
Author Terrance Hayes
Publisher Wave Books
Pages 191
Release 2023-03-07
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1950268837

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“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” —NPR In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself.” Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet’s search for another and in doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art in America. The future Etheridge Knight biographer will simultaneously write an autobiography. Fathers who go missing and fathers who are distant will become the bones of the stories. There will be a fable about a giant who grew too tall to be kissed by his father. My father must have kissed me when I was boy. I can’t really say. . . . By the time I was eleven or even ten years old I was as tall as him. I was six inches taller than him by the time I was fifteen. My biography about Knight would be about intimacy, heartache. Terrance Hayes is the author of How to Be Drawn, which received a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; and three other award-winning poetry collections. He is the poetry editor at the New York Times Magazine and also teaches at the University y of Pittsburgh. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin will also be forthcoming in 2018.

Black Voices from Prison

Black Voices from Prison
Title Black Voices from Prison PDF eBook
Author Etheridge Knight
Publisher New York : Pathfinder Press
Pages 200
Release 1970
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Born of a Woman

Born of a Woman
Title Born of a Woman PDF eBook
Author Etheridge Knight
Publisher
Pages 150
Release 1980
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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"Poems written [between 1964 and 1979], products of the experiences of one Black man in a divided society, evoke the brutality, fear, and desperation fostered in injustice and comment on love and brotherhood"--From Amazon.com.

Letters to America

Letters to America
Title Letters to America PDF eBook
Author Jim Daniels
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 236
Release 1995
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780814325421

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A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.