| Description |
1 online resource (114 pages) |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane -- Cell song -- He sees through stone -- Idea of ancestry -- On the yard -- Wasp woman visits a black junkie in prison -- Haiku -- For freckle-faced Gerald -- Warden said to me the other day -- My life, the quality of which -- Poem for black relocation centers -- You are -- Violent space -- Poem for a certain lady on her 33rd birthday -- Stretching of the belly -- As you leave me -- No moon floods the memory of that night -- Upon your leaving -- Feeling fucked up -- Indiana haiku -- For Langston Hughes -- Welcome back, Mr. Knight: love of my life -- Another poem for me -- Bones of my father -- Evolutionary poem no. 1 -- Evolutionary poem no. 2 -- Poem for myself -- report to the mother |
| Summary |
Etheridge Knight's ear for the Black American idiom and experience is reflected in this collection of poems that provide a combination of love, anger, irony and sweetness. The bulk of these poems appeared in Born of a Woman |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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American Book Award, 1987 |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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Poetry
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poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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American poetry
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822991090 |
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0822991098 |
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