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Etheridge Knight
(1931 - 1991)

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Etheridge Knight was born on April 19, 1931 in Corinth, Mississippi. He was one of seven children in a poor family, and only completed a ninth-grade education. Spending many of his adolescent years working in pool halls, bars, and juke joints, he mastered the art of "telling toasts". Toasts are lo .. .. more >>

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"convicts rest
Like lizards on rocks."
Etheridge Knight (1933-1991), U.S. poet. Eastern guard tower (l. 2-3). . . Treasury of American Poetry, The. Nancy Sullivan, ed. (1978) Doubleday & Company.

"Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet."
Etheridge Knight (1933-1991), U.S. poet. For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide (l. 13-14). . . Introduction to Poetry, An. X. J. Kennedy, ed. (6th ed., 1986) Little, Brown & Company.

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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Etheridge Knight
An Academy of American Poets poetry "exhibit," including a brief biography and an audio recording of the poet reading one of his poems.
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Etheridge Knight was born to a poor rural family in Corinth, Mississippi on April 19, 1931, in which he was one of seven children. ...
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Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. Although he dropped out of school at age fourteen, his education in the uses and joys of ...
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Etheridge Knight (1931-1991). | On Knight's Life and Career | On Etheridge Knight's Poetry | On "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the ...
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