{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerrance Hayes is 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. 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine \u003c\/em\u003e and also teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e will also be forthcoming in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650128351506,"sku":"9781940696614","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_270f7c36-de6b-4d80-a2fa-3ce6a8aee608.jpg?v=1733283320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-float-in-the-space-between-a-life-and-work-in-conversation-with-the-life-and-work-of-etheridge-knight-9781940696614","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}