In this first book-length study of Etheridge 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.
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\u003cP\u003e\u003cI\u003eUnderstanding Etheridge Knight \u003c/I\u003eintroduces 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. \u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eIn 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. \u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eBeginning with a concise biography of Knight, Collins explores Knight's volumes of poetry including \u003cI\u003ePoems from Prison, Black Voices from Prison, Born of a Woman,\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eThe Essential Etheridge Knight.\u003c/I\u003e \u003cI\u003eUnderstanding Etheridge Knight\u003c/I\u003e 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.\u003c/P\u003e
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