A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the
National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead Since the
publication of his first collection, Muscular Music, in 1999,
Terrance Hayes has been one of America's most exciting and
innovative poets, winning acclaim for sly, twisting, jazzy poems
that put "invincibly restless wordplay at the service of strong
emotions" (The New York Times Book Review). 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 the lyric fables,
folk sonnets, quarantine quatrains, and ekphrastic do-it-yourself
sestinas of So to Speak, Hayes's seventh collection. 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 wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the
often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Hayes shapes
language into figures of music and music into figures of language.
General
| Imprint: |
Penguin USA
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Penguin Poets |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Authors: |
Terrance Hayes
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 151 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
112 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-313772-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-14-313772-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780143137726 |
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