BELLY SONG

by Etheridge Knight

$300 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1973 . Inscribed first edition of Knight's third book, nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Fine. Item #50846 A major figure of the Black Arts Movement, Knight began his writing career as a prison journalist and poet while incarcerated in the 1960s; his first collection, POEMS FROM PRISON, was published upon his release and met with high praise from Gwendolyn Brooks,

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