To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Contributor(s): Hayes, Terrance (Author) |
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ISBN: 1940696615 ISBN-13: 9781940696614 Publisher: Wave Books OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | American - African American |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2017060740 |
Series: Bagley Wright Lecture |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." --NPR In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet's search for another and in doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art in America. The future Etheridge Knight biographer will simultaneously write an autobiography. Fathers who go missing and fathers who are distant will become the bones of the stories. Terrance Hayes is the author of How to Be Drawn, which received a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; and three other award-winning poetry collections. He is the poetry editor at the New York Times Magazine and also teaches at the University y of Pittsburgh. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin will also be forthcoming in 2018. |