Belly Song and Other Poems
- Belly Song and Other Poems
"Belly Song and Other Poems" was a prose poetry written by African American poet Etheridge Knight in 1973. This book is about the history of slavery and racism against African Americans going as far back as the 1840s to the Martin Luther King march of 1963.
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