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A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award-winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
List of contents
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)
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the author
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. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. He is the poetry editor at the New York Times Magazine and also teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin will also be forthcoming in 2018.
Summary
A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award–winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
Foreword
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"To Float in the Space Between is simply amazing. It’s an investigation of Hayes’s family tree, a time-lapse of one poet’s bloom, and an homage to the seed(s) that started it all."
Cody Lee, NewPages
