So to Speak by Terrance Hayes

So to Speak

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So to Speak

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So to Speak

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 A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead--to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your Language

The three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In "Watch Your Mouth," a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in "Watch Your Step: The Kafka Virus," a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in "Watch Your Head," green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait. On the one hand, these fabulous fables, American sonnets, quarantine quatrains, and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate what Toni Morrison called "the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one's own race." On the other hand, these urgent, personal poems contemplate fatherhood, history, and longing with remarkable openness and humanity. So To Speak is the mature, restless work of one of contemporary poetry's leading voices.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780143137726
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Terrance Hayes
Published Date:
2023-07-18
Language:
English
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About Terrance Hayes

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and earned a BA from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier collections include Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at New York University.

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