The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be : essays and interviews / Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer
- Author:
- Mullen, Harryette Romell
- Published:
- Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2012
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.Shorter Essays -- 1.Imagining the Unimagined Reader: Writing to the Unborn and Including the Excluded -- 2.Poetry and Identity -- 3.Kinky Quatrains: The Making of Muse & Drudge -- 4.Telegraphs from a Distracted Sibyl -- 5.If Lilies are Lily White: From the Stain of Miscegenation in Stein's "Melanctha" to the "Clean Mixture" of White and Color in Tender Buttons -- 6.Nine Syllables Label Sylvia: Reading Plath's "Metaphors" -- 7.Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem: Wislawa Szymborska in the Dialogue of Creative and Critical Thinkers -- 8.Theme for the Oulipians -- 9.When He Is Least Himself: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Double Consciousness in African American Poetry -- 10.Truly Unruly Julie: The Innovative Rule-Breaking Poetry of Julie Patton -- 11.All Silence Says Music Will Follow: Listening to Lorenzo Thomas -- 12.The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Stretching the Dialogue of African American Poetry -- II.Longer Essays -- 13.African Signs and Spirit Writing -- 14.Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved -- 15.Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness -- 16.Phantom Pain: Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook -- 17.A Collective Force of Burning Ink: Will Alexander's Asia & Haiti -- 18.Incessant Elusives: The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and Will Alexander -- III.Interviews -- 19."The Solo Mysterioso Blues": An Interview with Harryette Mullen / Calvin Bedient -- 20.An Interview with Harryette Mullen / Daniel Kane -- 21.An Interview with Harryette Mullen / Elisabeth A. Frost -- 22.An Interview with Harryette Mullen / Cynthia Hogue -- 23."I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen / Nibir K. Ghosh.
- Summary:
- "The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"--
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780817357139 (pbk.)
0817357130 (pbk.)
9780817386177 (ebook)
0817386173 (ebook) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-273).
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