Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Nottingham Contemporary, 4th April - 14th June 2015 and Tate Liverpool, 30th June - 18th October 2015.

Preface / Alex Farquharson, Francesco Manacorda and Andrea Nixon -- Introduction / Alex Farquharson -- We Are Many / Francesco Manacorda -- Gratitude (for Glenn Ligon) / Gregg Bordowitz -- Letter to Adrienne Kennedy / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon -- People Who Led to My Plays / Adrienne Kennedy -- Letter to Beauford Delaney / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, Franz Kline, William Pope.L, On Kawara, Beauford Delaney, Richard Serra, Lorna Simpson, Alighiero Boetti, Ad Reinhardt -- Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney / David Leeming -- Voices/Forces / Fred Moten -- Stranger in the Village / James Baldwin -- Letter to Zoe Leonard / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, David Hammons, Charles Moore, Philip Guston, Melvin Edwards, Zoe Leonard, Steve McQueen, Jean Genet, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Inteview by Tim Rollins -- Zami, A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde -- Letter to Sun Ra / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, Kelley Walker, Agnes Varda, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andy Warhol, Chris Ofili, Sun Ra, Stephen Shames, David Hammons -- Sula / Toni Morrison -- Some Notes on the Ocean / William Pope.L -- Letter to Adrian Piper / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Stephen Andrews, Cady Noland, William Eggleston, Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Bruce Nauman, Dave McKenzie, Adrian Piper -- How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness / Darby English -- New Ethnicities / Stuart Hall -- The Blob / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Letter to David Hammons / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, Robert Gober, Andy Warhol, Alighiero Boetti, Cy Twombly, Cady Noland, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jasper Johns, Martin Wong, David Wojnarowicz -- Notes on the Mythic Being I / Adrain Piper -- Buddy Ebsen / Hilton Als -- Letter to Jean-Michel Basquiat / Glenn Ligon -- Plates: Glenn Ligon, Byron Kim, Robert Morris, Willem de Kooning, Robert Gober, Jennie C. Jones, Bruce Davidson, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock -- On Reading / Marcel Proust -- The Wall and the Books and Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges.

"This book originates from a major group exhibition curated by Glenn LIgon, one of the most influential American artists of his generation. It features forty-five artists who he refers to in his art and in his writings, or who have been of significance to him more generally, including willem de Kooning, andy Warhol, Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lorna Simpson, Steve McQueen and Zoe Leonard. Literature is a frequent stimulus for Ligon's art, and this publication also features an anthology of fifteen literary and critical texts he has selected, by, for example, Marcel Proust, Adrienne Kennedy, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, HIlto Als and Fred Moten. There are also new writings by Ligon himself, Gregg Bordowitz, Alex Farquharson and Francesco Manacorda. A personal art history of sorts, sets in a wider cultural and historical context, this project offers a wealth of new insights in to the background that informs Ligon's practice."--Page [4] of cover.