That floating bridge
By: Benj DeMott, editor
Series: First of the year -- v. 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781315130798; 9781351486514
Subjects: Civilization; African Americans; Politics and government; Social conditions; Race relations; Philosophy; Civilisation; Noirs américains; Politique et gouvernement; Conditions sociales; Relations raciales; Philosophie
Description: "Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Wall Street and "America Beyond Capitalism." It presents essays, poems, and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal imagination. The title, That Floating Bridge, evokes Representative John Lewis' line?"Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma"?as it quotes a track on Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues, which Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages. That Floating Bridge's peerless range of contributors includes Amiri Baraka, Gar Alperovitz, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Bill Ayers, Paul Berman, John Chernoff, Mark Dudzic, Carmelita Estrellita, Henry Farrell, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, David Golding, Eugene Goodheart, Lawrence Goodwyn, Lisa Guenther, Alec Harrington, Malcolm Harris, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes, Patterson Hood, Roxane Johnson, Ben Kessler, Bob Levin, Philip Levine, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Scott McLemee, Judy Oppenheimer, Jedediah Purdy, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, Violet Socks, A.B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Richard Torres, Jesmyn Ward, and Pablo Yglesias. An account of how Franz Boas "did more to combat race prejudice than any other person" anchorsone section, but the volume also addresses devolutions of "diversity" linked with careerism in the art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled "Criticism of Life"celebrates older and younger critics/poets. Songs are key to this volume's good times. Music writing?ranging from Eddie Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous to Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet?enhances the pleasures of this text."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published 2013 by Transaction Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part Part I: That Floating Bridge --; title: chapter Eugene Goodheart--Race and the Presidency --; title: chapter Fredric Smoler--Before the Flood --; title: chapter Nick Salvatore--The Real Deal --; title: chapter Gar Alperovitz--Beyond the Given --; title: chapter Uri Avnery--Confessions of an Optimist 34 35  -- Bernard Avishai--One Man's Legacy Hans Koning--!; title: chapter 1 Man's Legacy --; title: chapter! --; title: chapter Casey Hayden--Only Love Is Radical --; title: chapter Judy Oppenheimer--ABC of Race and Gender 40  -- Alison Stone--?Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve?; title: chapter?Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve? --; title: chapter Dennis Myers--Growing Up in an Election Year, Or Anyhow --; title: chapter Bob Levin--Conventional Thinking --; title: chapter Alexander Harrington--The Great Society --; title: chapter Jesmyn Ward--Blood Dread 75  -- Sydney Nathans--Double Truth-Teller; title: chapter Double Truth-Teller --; title: chapter Benj DeMott--B-Sides 88  -- Amiri Baraka--Luis Reyes Rivera (1945-2012); title: chapter Luis Reyes Rivera (1945-2012) --; title: chapter Scott Spencer--R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: Low Country Blues & The Artist 95 99 99  -- Bob Liss--Russell's Way, Lin's Path Roxane Beth Johnson--Zebra Patterson Hood--Lost Soul; title: chapter Russell's Way, Lin's Path --; title: chapter Zebra --; title: chapter Scott McLemee--In Black and White 105  -- Richard Torres--Hoodies; title: chapter Hoodies --; title: chapter Bill Ayers--Food for Thought --; title: part Part II: Family of Humanists --; title: chapter John Chernoff and T. David Brent--Ethnographic Highs: The Forest People & African Rhythm and African Sensibility --; title: chapter Aram Saroyan--Irrevocable --; title: chapter Swedish Pastry --; title: chapter Culture Hero:The Anthropologist as Public Intellectual --; title: chapter Pay in Blood --; title: chapter Fredric Smoler--State of Play --; title: part Part III: First Drafts of History --; title: chapter Jeremy Brecher, Benj DeMott, Diane di Prima, Mark Dudzic, (AKA) Nolemonomelon, Jedediah Purdy, Aram Saroyan, Thinking Through Occupy Wall Street  -- John Fullerton, Dr. Donna Gaines, Ty Geltmaker, Adam Hochschild, Staughton Lynd, Greil Marcus, Dennis Myers, Fredric Smoler, Tom Smucker & Scott Spencer; title: chapter Bernard Avishai, Robert Chametzky, Benj DeMott, Carmelita  -- Estrellita, Ty Geltmaker, Eugene Goodheart, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes, Bob Levin, Jedediah Purdy, James Rosen, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Fredric Smoler, Scott Spencer & Patricia Williams--Choosey Beggars (2012); title: part Part IV: Criticism of Life --; title: chapter Ben Kessler--Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely --; title: chapter Bob Levin--Matinees & Memories --; title: chapter David Golding--Porn Theater: On Bolaño & Houellebecq --; title: chapter Violet Socks--The Pimp Vanishes --; title: chapter Malcolm Harris--Upping the Antihero 245  -- Bernard Avishai--Weiner's Complaint; title: chapter Weiner's Complaint --; title: chapter Benj DeMott--Big Man & Sisters Under the Skin --; title: chapter Carmelita Estrellita--Hors D'oeuvres & Double Entendres --; title: chapter Aram Saroyan--A Tender Mind: The Life and Times --; title: chapter Untethered  -- Eugene Goodheart--Untethered; title: chapter Sidney Offit--Ode to a Pill Bottle and Other Packages --; title: part Part V: Trips --; title: chapter Pablo Yglesias--Notes from the Underground --; title: chapter Michael Lydon--How I Wrote Forever Love --; title: chapter Alison Stone--Steve Jobs --; title: chapter Fr. Rick Frechette CP--Harmonica Jean's Christmas Spirit --; title: chapter Bongani Madondo--Go Tell It on the Mountain 312  -- Lisa Guenther--40 (+400) Years; title: chapter 40 (+400) Years --; title: chapter Philip Levine--On 52nd St --; title: chapter Brynn Macaulay--The Art of Listening --; title: chapter Judith Gelman Myers--Getting Real in Romania --; title: chapter Paul Berman--Demos & Generosity 329  -- Jacinthe Ahmed Assaad--Morsilini; title: chapter Morsilini --; title: chapter Lawrence Goodwyn--The Cunning of History 334  -- Richard Torres--2012; title: chapter 2012 2012 --; title: chapter Contributors' Notes