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Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Spirits in Bondage is composed of three sections of poetry: The Prison House, Hesitation, and The Escape. The complete contents of the book are as follows: Part I: The Prison House; I. Satan Speaks II. French Nocturne III. The Satyr IV. Victory V. Irish Nocturne VI. Spooks VII. Apology VIII. Ode For New Year's Day IX. Night X. To Sleep XI. In ...
A Sleep of Prisoners is a 1951 verse play by Christopher Fry. [1] It concerns four English prisoners of war locked up in a church overnight, and the Old Testament style dreams they have springing from an argument between them.
Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to his effort to have the Clergy Act 1640 annulled.
Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). Many were published by the Black Sparrow Press. He also edited the anthology A Controversy of Poets (1965).
Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Nobel Peace laureate [26] Aung San Suu Kyi stated: "This poem had inspired my father, Aung San, and his contemporaries during the independence struggle, as it also seemed to have inspired freedom fighters in other places at other times." [27] The poem was read by U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.
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