The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be : essays and interviews / Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullen, Harryette Romell.

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--20th century--Interviews.

Poets, American.

African American women poets--Interviews.

African American women poets.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

African American women.

Szymborska, Wisława.

Mullen, Harryette Romell--Interviews.

Mullen, Harryette Romell.

Mullen, Harryette Romell--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Shorter Essays; 1. Imagining the Unimagined Reader: Writing to the Unborn and Including the Excluded; 2. Poetry and Identity; 3. Kinky Quatrains: The Making of Muse & Drudge; 4. Telegraphs from a Distracted Sibyl; 5. If Lilies are Lily White: From the Stain of Miscegenation in Stein's "Melanctha" to the "Clean Mixture" of White and Color in Tender Buttons; 6. Nine Syllables Label Sylvia: Reading Plath's "Metaphors"; 7. Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem: Wislawa Szymborska in the Dialogue of Creative and Critical Thinkers; 8. Theme for the Oulipians

9. When He Is Least Himself: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Double Consciousness in African American Poetry 10. Truly Unruly Julie: The Innovative Rule-Breaking Poetry of Julie Patton; 11. All Silence Says Music Will Follow: Listening to Lorenzo Thomas; 12. The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Stretching the Dialogue of African American Poetry; II. Longer Essays; 13. African Signs and Spirit Writing; 14. Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved

15. Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness 16. Phantom Pain: Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook; 17. A Collective Force of Burning Ink: Will Alexander's Asia & Haiti; 18. Incessant Elusives: The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and Will Alexander; III. Interviews; 19. "The Solo Mysterioso Blues": An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Calvin Bedient; 20. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Daniel Kane; 21. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Elisabeth A. Frost; 22. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Cynthia Hogue

23. "I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen by Nibir K. GhoshBibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8617-3

OCLC:

809411102