To float in the space between : a life and work in conversation with the life and work of Etheridge Knight / Terrance Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Terrance, author.

Series:

Bagley Wright lecture series

Bagley Wright Lecture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knight, Etheridge, 1931-1991.

African American poets.

Knight, Etheridge, 1931-1991--Criticism and interpretation.

Knight, Etheridge.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Wave Books, [2018]

Summary:

"A book of lectures by Terrance Hayes."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"The idea of ancestry" (poem by Etheridge Knight)

Taped to the wall of my cell (Foreword)

Across the space (The poetics of origin)

I am all of them (Knight's vest of selves)

I am a thief (poem: "Portrait of Etheridge Knight in the style of a crime report" by Terrance Hayes)

I have at one time or another been in love (Drawing)

I am now in love (The craft of love)

I have the same name (The poetics of liquid)

An empty space (Prose/drawing)

Whereabouts unknown (Prose)

The graves (Drawing: for Langston Hughes)

Messages (The poetics of political poems)

I sipped cornwhiskey from fruit jars with the men (Prose)

I flirted with the women (Prose)

Split/my guts (Drawing)

I had almost caught up with me (Prose)

Damming my stream (poem: "The blue Etheridge" by Terrance Hayes)

My genes (Prose)

Across the space (The poetics of community)

I am me (Prose).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781940696614

1940696615

OCLC:

1023820889

Publisher Number:

99978097423