INTRODUCTION

I Need is a poem of longing and renewal. Each verse pairs a human desire with its spiritual counterpart—healing, wisdom, freedom, and love. The voice in the poem seeks not just comfort, but harmony: a sense of wholeness that joins body, heart, and soul.

Knowledge G is one of our Word Out Books authors and the writer of Wild Roses: Poetry and Prose, available in our catalogue. He generously donated “I Need” to our Free Library. His essay “My Testimony of Solitary Confinement” will appear in the upcoming anthology Harm and Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the American Prison, and he has been recognized by the Chris Wilson Foundation and the American Prison Writing Archive for his work.