Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
The first stanza of Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” begins the account of the long-term prisoner Hard Rock, who had a reputation for being impossible to bully, for which he suffered great abuse and physical injury, including split lips, cauliflower ears, and a long scar from his temple up through the hair on the top of his head. He has purple lips, yellow eyes, and curly hair.
Stanza 2 tells the story—“the WORD”—going around the prison that since his return Hard Rock is not an unruly person...
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