Description "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.
Description "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
