{"id":105,"date":"2015-09-16T02:14:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:27:55","slug":"knight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CELL SONG<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Music&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slanted <\/strong><br>\n<strong>Light strike the cave <\/strong><br>\n<strong>of sleep.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I alone <\/strong><br>\n<strong>tread the red circle <\/strong><br>\n<strong>and twist the space <\/strong><br>\n<strong>with speech. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Come now, etheridge, don\u2019t <\/strong><br>\n<strong>be a savior; take <\/strong><br>\n<strong>your words and scrape <\/strong><br>\n<strong>the sky, shake rain <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>on the desert, sprinkle <\/strong><br>\n<strong>salt on the tail <\/strong><br>\n<strong>of a girl, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>can there anything <\/strong><br>\n<strong>good come out of <\/strong><br>\n<strong>prison <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Etheridge Knight. <em>Poems from Prison<\/em> (1968)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/EtheridgeK_full1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/EtheridgeK_full1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Poems from Prison, Etheridge Knight, with drawing. Preface by Gwendolyn Brooks.\" class=\"wp-image-173\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/EtheridgeK_full2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/EtheridgeK_full2.jpg\" alt=\"Biography of the author\" class=\"wp-image-174\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CELL SONG Night&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Music&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slanted Light strike the cave of sleep.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I alone tread the red circle and twist the space with speech. Come now, etheridge, don\u2019t be a savior; take your words and scrape the sky, shake rain on the desert, sprinkle salt on the tail of a girl, can there anything good come <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/knight\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Knight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/330"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}