Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204)

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

To float in the space between

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Terrance Hayes

The Bagley Wright lecture series

a life and work in conversation with the life and work of Etheridge Knight

"A book of lectures by Terrance Hayes."--, Provided by publisherEtheridge 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 fo 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

"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)