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Rowell, Charles H. "An Interview with Etheridge Knight"
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996, pp. 967-980
The Johns Hopkins University Press

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This interview was conducted in the poet's home in Indianapolis, Indiana, between mid-1975 and late 1978, after Dudley Randall issued Belly Song and Other Poems from Broadside Press.

Part 1
ROWELL: Will you comment on what you consider the Black Aesthetic to be?

KNIGHT: I think the Black Aesthetic differs from the European Aesthetic mainly, man, because it does not separate art or aesthetics from the other levels of......

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