"The idea of ancestry" (poem by Etheridge Knight)
Taped to the wall of my cell (Foreword)
Across the space (The poetics of origin)
I am all of them (Knight's vest of selves)
I am a thief (poem: "Portrait of Etheridge Knight in the style of a crime report" by Terrance Hayes)
I have at one time or another been in love (Drawing)
I am now in love (The craft of love)
I have the same name (The poetics of liquid)
An empty space (Prose/drawing)
Whereabouts unknown (Prose)
The graves (Drawing: for Langston Hughes)
Messages (The poetics of political poems)
I sipped cornwhiskey from fruit jars with the men (Prose)
I flirted with the women (Prose)
Split/my guts (Drawing)
I had almost caught up with me (Prose)
Damming my stream (poem: "The blue Etheridge" by Terrance Hayes)
My genes (Prose)
Across the space (The poetics of community)
I am me (Prose).