BELLY SONG
Inscribed first edition of Knight's third book, nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Fine.
Price: $300.00
Inscribed first edition of Knight's third book, nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Fine.
Price: $300.00
"Black Poets should live - not leap / From steel bridges (like the white boys do."
A major figure of the Black Arts Movement, Knight began his writing career as a prison journalist and poet while incarcerated in the 1960s; his first collection, POEMS FROM PRISON, was published upon his release and met with high praise from Gwendolyn Brooks, Dudley Randall, and others. Knight's later career won him an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the widespread admiration of peers including Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, and Mary Karr, a student in Knight's Free People's Poetry Workshop: "I went to hear him read and I was just knocked out."
Read more: Collins, Understanding Etheridge Knight.
Detroit: Broadside Press, (1973). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original yellow wrappers. 62, [2] pages. Inscribed on half title page by Knight. Minor edgewear.
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