To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight

By Terrance Hayes Description Reviews 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.WINNER of the 2019 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Criticism Working in a kind of essayistic confessional style, Hayes considers political poetry, black masculinity, the end of marriage, absent biological fathers, the affections that fathers hold for sons, the beginning of love, kinship, and dream song. At each turn, one feels Knight pulsing in Hayes’ self-interrogations.Walton Muyumba, Literary Hub Partly, this is a critical biography of t