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red his interest in language 8 it was during this time that knight became exposed to toasts narrative style oral poetry which relates a story 3 in 1947 knight enlisted in the army and served as a medical technician in the korean war until november 1950 during which time he sustained serious wounds as well as psychological trauma which led him to begin using morphine 9 by the time knight was discharged from the army and returned to indianapolis indiana where his family had moved he had become addicted to opiates 10 he spent much of the next several years dealing drugs and stealing to support his drug addiction 10 in 1960 after a few previous run ins with the police knight and two of his associates were arrested for armed robbery 11 knight was initially so furious about his sentence that he was later unable to recall much of what happened during the first few months of his sentence 11 but after realizing that such anger was counterproductive he turned his attention to reading as much as he could and dedicated himself to poetry 10 during the following years knight became increasingly well known for his poetry writings after working as a journalist for prison publications he began submitting poetry to the negro digest in 1965 12 he also started establishing contacts with significant figures in the african american literary community including well known poets like gwendolyn brooks dudley randall haki madhubuti and sonia sanchez his eventual first wife many of whom came to visit him in prison 13 the poems he had written during his time in prison were so effective that dudley randall a poet and owner of broadside press published knight s first volume of verse poems from prison and hailed knight as one of the major poets of the black arts movement the book s publication coincided with his release from prison upon his release from prison in 1968 knight married poet sonia sanchez over the next few years he held the position of writer in residence at several universities including two years 1968 and 1969 spent at the university of pittsburgh while living in pittsburgh with his wife and their family knight spent time as poetry editor for motive magazine knight and sanchez were divorced in 1970 due to his continuing drug addiction he continued writing his third book belly song and other poems which was published in 1973 his third work incorporates new life experiences and attitudes about love and race and knight was praised for the work s sincerity belly song was nominated for the national book award and the pulitzer prize knight s time in pennsylvania was very important to his career his work during this period won him both a national endowment for the arts grant in 1972 and a guggenheim fellowship in 1974 knight married mary mcanally in 1972 and she adopted two children they settled in minneapolis minnesota until they separated in 1977 he then resided in memphis tennessee where he received methadone treatments in 1986 university of pittsburgh press published the essential etheridge knight a compilation of his work that won the american book award for poetry in 1990 knight earned a bachelor s degree in american poetry and criminal justice from martin university in indianapolis knight taught at the university of pittsburgh the university of hartford and lincoln university before he was forced to stop working due to illness he also continued to be known as a charismatic poetry reader knight died in indianapolis indiana of lung cancer on march 10 1991 style and themes edit knight s poetry uses black vernacular and includes a number of haiku among its forms including this poem titled vigo county beyond the brown hill above the silent cedars blackbirds flee the april rains 14 this message aligns with the black arts movement in that the artists were no longer going to be imprisoned by silence they would use their voices and art to escape joyce ann joyce places knight in the context of an african philosophical aesthetic tradition his tribute to the ancestors she writes emerges as a ritualistic drama in which the values of the poet s ancestors are reborn redefined reaffirmed and reinterpreted at once giving them added viability and sacralizing their new form this ethnophilosophical perspective she finds differs significantly from the eurocentric concept of intertextuality that confines itself to reading texts only within the context of other texts joyce calls him a truly african oral performer whose subjects grew out of his and his people s lives so that viewed in the context of an african philosophical aesthetic tradition his poetry places him among those at the vanguard of any discussion of the history of african american poetic letters 15 in his poem cell song knight articulates his desire to create good from his time in prison he speaks to himself night music slanted light strike the cave of sleep i alone tread the red circle and twist the space with speech come now etheridge don t be a savior take your words and scrape the sky shake rain on the desert sprinkle salt on the tail of a girl can there anything good come out of prison 14 knight places the reader within the cell he capitalizes the first three words to show emphasis this is not actual music but the quiet and intermittent noises expected to be heard at night in prison in the dark and light of the red circle he paces and ruminates over the words and ideas in his head he attempts to project to that life beyond the prison walls to use his talents for good to use his words to make an impact the reader can imagine knight walking in small circles within his cell as the words of the poem wind tighter and tighter he concludes rather than questions that good can come out of prison his exploration of themes of freedom and imprisonment including his tributes to martin luther king jr and malcolm x are noted in a biographical study by cassie premo who writes that his life and work dwell on the theme of prisons imposed from without slavery racism poverty incarceration and prisons from within addiction repetition of painful patterns which are countered with the theme of freedom his poems of suffering and survival trial and tribute loss and love testify to the fact that we are never completely imprisoned knight s poetry expresses our freedom of consciousness and attests to our capacity for connection to others 16 in his prison era poem the warden said to me the other day knight limns his feelings of emotional imaginative and perceptual confinement 17 the warden said to me the other day innocently i think say etheridge why come the black boys don t run off like the white boys do i lowered my jaw and scratched my head and said innocently i think well suh i ain t for sure but i reckon it s cause we ain t got no wheres to run to 17 written in a vernacular style reminiscent of a tale by uncle remus knight expresses the doubtfulness of black autonomy and white motives for knight sees american as a prison where no matter how benevolent a warden wishes to be his gestures remain part of what locks his charges in 17 knight s true prison then is the ways in which the law controlled by white america imprisons black bodies and black voices regardless of their presumed physical freedom knight s poem a wasp woman visits a black junkie in prison shows how humans must only find a common interest to make a connection in this case both the black man and white woman have children according to premo the encounter leaves the man touched and softened by the woman as are many of knight s male speakers 18 in belly song the speaker sings of love all the emotion pain memory and passion of living 18 in the stretching of the belly knight contrasts the stretchmarks of his third wife charlene blackburn with his own scars his wife s representing growth and life while his are from war violence and slavery 18 works edit poems from prison detroit broadside press 1968 2 poems for black relocation centers 1968 the idea of ancestry 1968 black voices from prison with others new york pathfinder press 1970 a poem for brother man 1972 for black poets who think of suicide 1972 belly song and other poems detroit broadside press 1973 born of a woman new and selected poems boston houghton mifflin 1980 the essential etheridge knight pittsburgh university of pittsburgh press 1986 the lost etheridge athens kinchafoonee creek press 2022 references edit a brief guide to the black arts movement academy of american poets 19 february 2014 archived from the original on 10 january 2014 retrieved 18 february 2017 collins michael 2012 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina p 1 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 oclc 773021068 1 2 3 4 rowell charles h and etheridge knight an interview with etheridge knight callaloo vol 19 no 4 1996 pp 967 981 jstor jstor www jstor org stable 3299136 gates henry louis jr and valerie a smith editors introduction to etheridge knight the norton anthology of african american literature vol 2 3rd edition norton 2014 collins michael 2013 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina press p 3 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 knight etheridge 4 february 2014 etheridge knight retrieved 18 february 2017 collins michael 2012 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina press pp 3 4 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 etheridge knight poets org academy of american poets retrieved 18 february 2017 collins michael 2012 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina press pp 4 5 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 1 2 3 anaporte easton jean 1996 etheridge knight poet and prisoner an introduction callaloo 19 4 942 doi 10 1353 cal 1996 0148 jstor 3299129 s2cid 161331184 1 2 collins michael 2012 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina press p 5 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 collins michael 2012 understanding etheridge knight columbia university of south carolina press p 6 isbn 978 1 61117 066 5 anaporte easton jean 1996 etheridge 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collection of poems guide to the etheridge knight collection butler university modern american poetry etheridge knight 1931 1991 archived 2005 03 06 at the wayback machine etheridge knight biography biography and interview at the worcester writers project archived 2011 09 27 at the wayback machine online collection of 14 poems by etheridge knight complete with biographical information v t e american book awards winners 1980 1999 1980 douglas woolf edward dorn jayne cortez leslie marmon silko mei mei berssenbrugge milton murayama quincy troupe rudolfo anaya 1981 alta alan chong lau bienvenido n santos helen adam lionel mitchell miguel algarín nicholasa mohr peter blue cloud robert kelly rose drachler susan howe toni cade bambara 1982 al young duane niatum e l mayo frank chin hilton obenzinger him mark lai genny lim judy yung jerome rothenberg joyce carol thomas leroy quintana lorna dee cervantes ronald phillip tanaka russell banks tato laviera 1983 barbara christian cecilia liang 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