Terrance Hayes: To Float in the Space Between — A Creative Dialogue with Etheridge Knight’s Life and Art

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Wave Books (paperback, 2018)

Publisher Marketing: “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.

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