LEADER 04233nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910462397503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8617-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000238646 035 $a(EBL)997588 035 $a(OCoLC)809411102 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704725 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11448598 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704725 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10719389 035 $a(PQKB)10400321 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC997588 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22262 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL997588 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595681 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000238646 100 $a20120227d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be$b[electronic resource] $eessays and interviews /$fHarryette Mullen ; introduction by Hank Lazer 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity Alabama Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 225 0$aModern and contemporary poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5713-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 Oulipians 327 $a9. 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 327 $a15. 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 Hogue 327 $a23. "I Dream a World": A Conversation with Harryette Mullen by Nibir K. GhoshBibliography 330 $a"The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen's own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women's voices, and the future of poetry"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aModern & Contemporary Poetics 606 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vInterviews 606 $aAfrican American women poets$vInterviews 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoets, American 615 0$aAfrican American women poets 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life 676 $a811/.54 700 $aMullen$b Harryette Romell$01027857 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462397503321 996 $aThe cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be$92443552 997 $aUNINA