American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1625 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Etheridge Knight and the Prison Poem
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The idea
Wounded by shrapnel in Korea and left dependent on morphine, Knight served eight years in the Indiana State Prison and began writing there. Poems from Prison, of nineteen sixty-eight, made him an important voice of the Black Arts Movement, and Brooks wrote its preface.
In practice
A sentence, and the poems written inside it.
Where people slip
He wrote that poetry brought him back to life.
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