{"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 • Author(s): Terrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45159643807895,"sku":"9781940696614","price":1713.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781940696614.webp?v=1767104760","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-float-in-the-space-between-a-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-the-life-and-work-of-etheridge-knight-9781940696614","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}