9781802063394

Aug 14, 2024, 11:43 AM

So to Speak

Since the publication of his first book in 1999, Terrance Hayes has been one of America's most exciting and innovative poets, winning acclaim for his sly, twisting, jazzy poems, and his mastery of emotive, restless wordplay. In this book, his seventh collection, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds, talking cats tell jokes in the Jim Crow South and a father addresses his daughter. In lyric fables, folk sonnets, quarantine quatrains and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas, Bob Ross paints your portrait, green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne and elegies for the late David Berman and George Floyd unfold amid the pandemic. These poems lyrically capture the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Hayes shapes music into language, and language into music.

Terrance Hayes

Title : 9781802063394

ISBN : 9781802063394

Publisher : Penguin Press UK

Pages : 112

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Pub date : Jul 25, 2024, 08:00 AM

C m s pub date : Aug 13, 2024, 08:00 AM

Length : 198

Width : 129

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