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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hayes, Terrance (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : Wave Books, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Bagley Wright lecture series.
Subjects:	Knight, Etheridge, > 1931-1991 > Criticism and interpretation. Knight, Etheridge, > 1931-1991. Hayes, Terrance. Black Arts movement. American poetry > African American authors. African American poets. United States. American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism. African American poets > 20th century > History and criticism. Black Arts movement > United States. 1900-1999 Literary criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Description
Summary:	"A book of lectures by Terrance Hayes."-- Etheridge Knight often introduced himself at poetry readings by saying, "I died in Korea from a shrapnel wound and narcotics resurrected me. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life." He was a black man born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931 - a Korean War veteran, a junkie, an ex-con, a con man, a bluesman, a great poet and teacher. While Knight was incarcerated at the Indiana State Prison from 1960-1968, his writing drew the mentorship of Gwendolyn Brooks and resulted in the publication of his first collection, "Poems from Prison," in 1968 by Dudley Randall's heralded Broadside Press. Knight published three more books of poems, "Belly Song," "Born of a Woman," and "The Essential Etheridge Knight," for which he won an American Book Award. Etheridge Knight also received the Shelley Award form the Poetry Society of America, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He died in 1991 in Indianapolis. -- back cover. "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." -- Publisher's website
Physical Description:	207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204).
ISBN:	9781940696614 1940696615