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The Idea of Ancestry
Publisher: Shout! Factory
Author: Etheridge Knight
Audio lenght: 3 min.
Associated with the Black Arts Movement, Knight began writing poetry while serving a prison term for armed robbery, referring to prison as "my major metaphor". In 1968 he was released from prison, published the book Poems from Prison, and married poet Sonia Sanchez. Although his work was widely acclaimed, Knight struggled all his life with a drug habit he picked up as a result of an injury suffered while fighting in the Korean War.
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