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Love Language
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In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the
absurdity of the English language The title of Love Language can be
read at least three ways: as an imperative, as the signoff to a
letter, and as a contemporary way of talking about relationship
styles. None of these would be wrong. In his followup to the
acclaimed SKY WRI TEI NGS, which used only the language of airport
codes, Nasser Hussain moves toward a more expansive version of
experimentation; in a time of physical lockdown, his pandemic
poetics refuse to be confined. And so we have poems that repeat and
hypnotize as English becomes more and more absurd, that compare an
affair to a relationship with Apple, that list love poems the poet
loves. Through it all we see a deep affection for our language, and
for the ways that language lets us talk about love. "Think of 'time
as a lantern,' suggests Nasser Hussain, in these inimitable poems
that take play seriously and allow seriousness to enter the room
disguised as incantation. These are poems that long to dismiss the
lyric’s most recent pretty mask of polite propriety and instead
take us to the lyric’s ancient roots. It started way back, the
poet says, 'when a cave person made a grunt,' to speak the name of
a thing. Indeed. This is the lyric’s ancient pact with the world:
to spin playful language into seriousness of giving things their
names—what are we without this speaking, this tune? Hussain knows
this and writes beautiful poems—and I, for one, am grateful." –
Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic "Hussain's humour is never
complacent; it is the opposite of a defence mechanism (we are
encouraged to imagine such a thing) and wryly sidesteps the bad
binary of conservative withdrawal as set against
algorithm-envenomed hyperassertion. He puts into words a new
masculinity maturer than we deserve, that acknowledges swerves of
defiance to be inseparable from underswells of doubt." – Vidyan
Ravinthiran, author of The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
General
Imprint: |
Coach House Books
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Nasser Hussain
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
80 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-55245-471-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-55245-471-1 |
Barcode: |
9781552454718 |
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