Preface

Tracie Morris

“The Motion of Light” is named for the Kelly Writers House celebration of Samuel R. Delany’s performative poetics, held on April 11, 2014, and archived at PennSound. This Jacket2 feature collects work by all those who were a part of the Delany celebration, of an event that celebrated the writer who, as Tracie Morris notes in her introduction, “is a constellation that continues to be fixed, yet revolves, for me and for so many lovers of poetry … a maker of many worlds.”

Samuel R. Delany's worlds: An introduction Tracie Morris
A toast to Chip Delany Jena Osman
On Chip Delany Frank Sherlock
Delany in the Rhizome Anne Waldman
Paean John Keene
A tribute to Samuel Delany Sarah Micklem
Mirror and maze Kenneth R. James
A familial touchstone via 'Dhalgren' Tracie Morris
Erotic particularity, metacognition, survival Ira Livingston
Amuse-bouche Fred Moten
Delany on Close Listening, April 2014 Samuel R. Delany
February 12, 2015
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