Box 1
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Poems (A - B), manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
File Includes "After Listening to Ernesto Cardenal," "And We Looked," "At a V.A. Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in One Play," "The Ballad of Betty Dunn," "Behind the Beat Look is a Sweet/Fast Tongue and a Boogie Foot," "Belly Song" (Spanish translation), "A Black Poet Leaps to His Death (For Mbembe Milton Smith)," "Blues for a Lady in Boston," and "The Bones of My Father"
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poems (C - J), manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
File Includes:
"Circling the Daughter,"
"Comes Now the Red Madness,"
"Continuation Blues,"
"The Dance,"
"Eat Hellen B. Happy,"
"The Fireman Speaks of Smoke Detectors,"
"For Honey,"
"For Jennifer McKim(?),"
"For Kerry Keough on Her 4th Birthday,"
"Freedom Chant for Blue Mt. Center,"
"From the Moment (or, Right / at -- The Time),"
"Haiku for the Homeless,"
"Hey Maggie Brown,"
"I Am A Tree, My Lovers Fly To and From Me:,"
"I Need For You To Tell Me," and
"Joe Splivingates Speaks...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poems (L - P), manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
File Includes:
"A Lil' Hope Is All We Need,"
"Love Song to Idi Amin,"
"Mountain Mother,"
"My Uncle is my Honor and a Guest in my House (For Jim Cozart and Ezephalele),"
"O Elizabeth,"
"Once On a Night in the Delta: A Report from Hell (for Sterling Brown),"
"On Lust,"
"On Seeing the Black Male as #1 Sex Object in America,"
"On the Birth of a Black Baby Boy (for Isaac BuShie Blackburn-Knight),"
"On the Removal of the Facist American Right from Power,"
"A Poem by All/Of/Us,"
"A Poem...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poems (R - Y), manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
File Includes:
"Raise a 'Rookus' Tonight,"
"Recovering at Eagleville,"
"Rehabilitation & Treatment In the Prisons of America,"
"Report to Betsy Ross, Mother of the American Revolution,"
"Report to the Mother,"
"Revolutionaries Live in Houses of Love (For Hank and Wendy Keene-Sanel),"
"Ride, Sally Ride,"
"She Comes to Me, for Bett Gordon,"
"Sigh, cry, broken hearted...,"
"The Signifying Monkey,"
"The Song of a Junkie (Junky's Song),"
"Song of Br'er Mud-Turtle,"
"Song of the...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poems - combined on page, manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
File Includes:
"The Warden Said to Me the Other Day," with "Rehabilitation and Treatment";
"Sigh, cry, broken hearted," with "Eat Helen B. Happy";
"Genesis II," with "For a Brookline Lady I Love," and "Worcester woman...";
"Eulogy by 'Slick'" by Harvey Cummings, with "You Are (for E.C.A.)";
"This Sun is Hot," with "The Hypocrite," and "Old Man Know-All";
"Run, Nigger, Run!," with "Sharecropping Economics 101," and "Wild Nigger Bill";
"The Messenger (for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad,...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poems - untitled fragments, manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poetry fragments and notes, manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Poetry fragments and notes, manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
The Essential Etheridge Knight book draft assembly (1 of 6), circa 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
circa 1986
The Essential Etheridge Knight book draft assembly (2 of 6), circa 1986
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the personal and literary papers in Etheridge Knight’s possession at the time his death in 1991. Some items date as far back as 1965, but most fall into the period from 1982 to 1991. A collection of Knight’s earlier literary and personal papers is housed at the Ward M. Canaday Center at the University of Toledo. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which has been subdivided into two categories: personal and professional. The personal...
Dates:
circa 1986