The cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be essays and interviews - Mullen, Harryette Romell (University Alabama Press, 2012)
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 Whiteness16. 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