
The Essential Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight
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Description
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.
Product Details
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Publish Date | December 05, 1986 |
Pages | 124 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780822953784 |
Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) is widely regarded as one of America's most prominent and lively poets.
Reviews
A foremost American poet in the black oral tradition, can move from pathos and a near-tragic vision of the destructiveness of imprisonment to tenderness and a lusty, incisive wit. . . . the work as a whole bears testimony anew to his authentic 'blues' voice, deep feeling, and concern for communication between the races.-- "Library Journal"
Etheridge Kight is the kind of poet who can sound a song on a page.-- "Post-Intelligencer"
To read Knight is not to escape from or to transfigure America. It really isn't a 'comfortable' experience. He is too aware of the violent spaces between races and individuals to attempt grandiloquescence. Equally he is too screwed into the mundane to attempt sleight of hand tricks. His poetry is clarified on the oilstone of experience. The sad, funky yet celebrative sound of his 'blues' is experience being honed on the quartz grains of a grindstone.-- "The Iowa Review"
Wonderful in its ability to combine love and anger, irony and sweetness. Knight is a street-smart poet with an ear for the Black American idiom and experience, and his poems reflect a life lived largely at the cutting edge edge of that experience: poverty, racism, prison, drug addiction, and rehabilitation. Whether in the form of incantatory blues, narrative poems, or his distinctly individual urban haiku, Knight's is a compelling voice.-- "Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
Etheridge Kight is the kind of poet who can sound a song on a page.-- "Post-Intelligencer"
To read Knight is not to escape from or to transfigure America. It really isn't a 'comfortable' experience. He is too aware of the violent spaces between races and individuals to attempt grandiloquescence. Equally he is too screwed into the mundane to attempt sleight of hand tricks. His poetry is clarified on the oilstone of experience. The sad, funky yet celebrative sound of his 'blues' is experience being honed on the quartz grains of a grindstone.-- "The Iowa Review"
Wonderful in its ability to combine love and anger, irony and sweetness. Knight is a street-smart poet with an ear for the Black American idiom and experience, and his poems reflect a life lived largely at the cutting edge edge of that experience: poverty, racism, prison, drug addiction, and rehabilitation. Whether in the form of incantatory blues, narrative poems, or his distinctly individual urban haiku, Knight's is a compelling voice.-- "Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
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