{"product_id":"to-float-in-the-space-between-a-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-the-life-and-work-of-etheridge-knight-9781940696614","title":"To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.\" --NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eThere will be a fable about a giant who grew too tall to be kissed by his father. My father must have kissed me when I was boy. I can't really say. . . . By the time I was eleven or even ten years old I was as tall as him. I was six inches taller than him by the time I was fifteen. My biography about Knight would be about intimacy, heartache.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerrance Hayes \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/em\u003e, which received a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry; \u003cem\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e will also be forthcoming in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671520702620,"sku":"9781940696614","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f852a3c-0890-4e7e-84e4-6b456093fbf5.jpg?v=1603925603","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/to-float-in-the-space-between-a-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-the-life-and-work-of-etheridge-knight-9781940696614","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}