04233nam 2200661Ia 450 991046239750332120200520144314.00-8173-8617-3(CKB)2670000000238646(EBL)997588(OCoLC)809411102(SSID)ssj0000704725(PQKBManifestationID)11448598(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704725(PQKBWorkID)10719389(PQKB)10400321(MiAaPQ)EBC997588(MdBmJHUP)muse22262(Au-PeEL)EBL997588(CaPaEBR)ebr10595681(EXLCZ)99267000000023864620120227d2012 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be[electronic resource] essays and interviews /Harryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank LazerTuscaloosa University Alabama Pressc20121 online resource (292 p.)Modern and contemporary poeticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-5713-0 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Oulipians9. 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 Beloved15. 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 by Calvin Bedient; 20. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Daniel Kane; 21. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Elisabeth A. Frost; 22. An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Cynthia Hogue23. "I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen by Nibir K. GhoshBibliography"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"--Provided by publisher.Modern & Contemporary PoeticsPoets, American20th centuryInterviewsAfrican American women poetsInterviewsLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican American womenIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Poets, AmericanAfrican American women poetsLiterature and societyHistoryAfrican American womenIntellectual life811/.54Mullen Harryette Romell1027857MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462397503321The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be2443552UNINA