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So to Speak (Paperback)
Terrance Hayes
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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.
ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A
voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest
and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman
was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor,
and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of
130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected
by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying
now: --One of the year's best! "These poems are wildly fun and
inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every
human experience and emotion."--New York Times --Winner, California
Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
--"Required Reading" Bustle --"One of the greatest poets ever to
come out of L.A." The New Yorker --One of the year's best!
"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent
distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive
wit."--Washington Post --"Her work pushes us to confront injustice
with as much candor as she did."--Poetry A self-made writer from
Black Los Angeles, Wanda Coleman made art while living every day
with racism, poverty, violence. Her triumph is in words that
endure. It's time for Coleman's courageous, impassioned, inspiring,
one-of-a-kind voice to reach readers everywhere.
In 1997 Carcanet published the Selected Poems with which James Tate
(1943–2015) won the Pulitzer Prize and his first British book.
Hell, I love everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate re-introduces the
poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and
season. It includes work from his first publication, The Lost
Pilot, a Yale Younger Poets selection (1967) and all his subsequent
books. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is
alarming, absurd, but properly considered that absurdity reveals,
often with laughter, the something else by which we live. All
Tate's poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed love for it.
Tate was described as a surrealist. If he is, that surrealism
issues in a vision of a world delivered back to itself by candour.
John Ashbery wrote of 'his genius: passionate, humane, funny,
tragic, and always surprising and mind-delighting'.
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new
collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My
Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth
collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct
experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the
other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a
poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as
Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with
meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line
between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by
the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta tion format. This innovative
collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull
against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens,
delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and
scorched.
ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST-The New York Times and Washington Post A
voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality-here is the greatest
and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman
was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor,
and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of
130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected
by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying
now: -One of the year's best! "These poems are wildly fun and
inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every
human experience and emotion."-New York Times -Winner, California
Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
-"Required Reading" Bustle -"One of the greatest poets ever to come
out of L.A." The New Yorker -One of the year's best! "Fantastically
entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative
rage, social critique, and subversive wit."-Washington Post -"Her
work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she
did."-Poetry A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles, Wanda
Coleman made art while living every day with racism, poverty,
violence. Her triumph is in words that endure. It's time for
Coleman's courageous, impassioned, inspiring, one-of-a-kind voice
to reach readers everywhere.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, a
fascinating collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and
visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry
Over the last twenty-five years, Terrance Hayes has become one of
our most exciting and innovative poets. He has also emerged as a
perceptive and groundbreaking chronicler of contemporary poetry,
with critical work appearing in publications ranging from Boston
Review to The Baffler. His 2018 book on the poet Etheridge Knight,
To Float in the Space Between, was a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award for criticism. This collection of illustrated
critical pieces maps Hayes's personal, lyrical imagining of poetry,
deconstructs the traditional book review, and argues that drawing
can and should be as multidimensional and hybrid-minded as poetry
making. It includes pieces about basketball and poetry; an essay
that relates Gwendolyn Brooks to Toi Derricotte; an introduction to
the work of Wanda Coleman; a book review and epistolary prose-poem
hybrid titled "Letter to Yusef"; illustrated "card deck prose poem"
pieces, including an homage to the poet Tim Seibles; selections
from an illustrated biographical dictionary of poets of the past
hundred years; and a suite of graphic sonnets. It closes with
"Questions for Reflection on a Century of American Poetry," Hayes's
Academy of American Poets Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and
poetics. These astonishing essays, illustrated by Hayes himself,
establish the roots of his own poetic influences and reconstruct
modes of poetic engagement, demonstrating what makes a poem both
move and be moving and illustrating how drawing itself can be a
kind of critical, poetic discourse.
An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that
will captivate today's readers, with an introduction by Terrance
Hayes Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention,
time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell,
I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate,
hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the
"poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays into
possibilities for American poetry's future. With a new introduction
by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers, new and old, a
lasting collection of favorites to be treasured for years to come.
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Master
Simon Shieh; Introduction by Terrance Hayes
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Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by
Terrance Hayes. The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a
stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past.
Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity from a
martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in
Beijing. Language emerges in this collection not as a neutral
witness to a boy’s subjugation, but as the very tool of hegemony,
though one which also holds the key to its own undoing, and
therefore to freedom. As much as Master is the story of pain, it is
also a journey to healing, illuminating that while violence can be
our patrimony, it does not have to be our destiny.
'Vital and energetic . . . These are the poems of a certain age:
scars so old others must tell you how they are made . . . Hayes is
a singular poet, and this book a singular achievement' Nick Laird A
dazzling new collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot
Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future
Assassin In So to Speak, the dazzling new collection by Terrance
Hayes, the poet seeks to understand how we see ourselves now. He
draws the reader into fabulous fables, American sonnets and
do-it-yourself sestinas as he roves among the predicaments of the
present and recent past, piecing together a new map of our
times.Here, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds.
Talking cats tell jokes in the Jim Crow South. Green beans bling in
the mouth of Lil Wayne, and elegies for David Berman and George
Floyd unfold amid the global pandemic. Here, too, Hayes
contemplates fatherhood, history and longing, in urgent, personal
poems of a remarkable openness and humanity.Masterful,
contemplative and massively alive, So to Speak shows one of
contemporary poetry's great innovators at his muscular best. It is
a treasure-trove of exploration, and an invitation to each of us to
engage in the creativity that makes and remakes our world. It is,
above all, the mature, restless work of a leading poetic voice.
"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPR In these works
based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight,
Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as
speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet
investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of
writings and drawings enacts one poet's search for another and in
doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art
in America. The future Etheridge Knight biographer will
simultaneously write an autobiography. Fathers who go missing and
fathers who are distant will become the bones of the stories. There
will be a fable about a giant who grew too tall to be kissed by his
father. My father must have kissed me when I was boy. I can't
really say. . . . By the time I was eleven or even ten years old I
was as tall as him. I was six inches taller than him by the time I
was fifteen. My biography about Knight would be about intimacy,
heartache. Terrance Hayes is the author of How to Be Drawn, which
received a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry; Lighthead, which won
the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; and three other
award-winning poetry collections. He is the poetry editor at the
New York Times Magazine and also teaches at the University y of
Pittsburgh. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin will
also be forthcoming in 2018.
THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S.
ELIOT PRIZE The black poet would love to say his century began With
Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually It began with all the
poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, Poetry whiners & winos
falling from ship bows, sunset Bridges & windows. In a second
I'll tell you how little Writing rescues. So begins this
astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and
most acclaimed poets. Over 70 poems, each titled 'American Sonnet
for my Past and Future Assassin' and shot through with the
vernacular energy of popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his
way between touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and
creation, tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of
the enemies of the good. American Sonnets builds a living picture
of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the
view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression
which define the early 21st Century. It is compassionate,
hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically
compelling, as few books can hope to be.
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Hip Logic (Paperback)
Terrance Hayes
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Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to capture the nuances of contemporary male African American identity and confirms Hayes's reputation as one of the most compelling new voices in American poetry.
The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet
and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic
form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner
Terrance Hayes. An array of writers-including winners of the
Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award,
as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate-have written poems
for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez
Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty,
Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of
the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel
poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international
student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn
Brooks's daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school
students add to Ms. Brooks's legacy and contribute to the depth and
breadth of this anthology.
'Essential reading' Roger Robinson 'Hateful and hilarious,
heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr 'Sure, wise and devastating . .
. a joy' Caleb Azumah Nelson 'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly
wise, she is transcendent' Washington Post Nobody wrote about
police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet,
about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily
grind, with the same breathtaking originality and brio; and few
writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such
honesty about their everyday experience of life - and love - in an
unjust world. This is the first ever UK publication of the poetry
of Wanda Coleman: a beat-up, broke and Black woman who wrote with
defiance, humour and clarity about her life on the margins, and who
went overlooked by the establishment for decades - even as she was
known colloquially as 'the unofficial poet laureate of Los
Angeles'. Wicked Enchantment gathers 130 of Coleman's poems in a
selection by Terrance Hayes. Funny, angry, endlessly alive and
written with an immediacy and frankness that captivate, here is the
essential work of a poet of fierce resistance and self-belief
against the odds.
A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book
Critics Circle Award In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth
collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While
many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's
background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art
so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of
blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs,
and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that
distinguish Hayes's award-winning poetry are unified by existential
focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed,
How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.
Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural
winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the
South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length
collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of
life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that
abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to
marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her
attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss,
relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the
poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past
and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the
verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world,
where birds are "yeses quickening the air" and the sky can "lap you
up, and up." In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to
fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that
recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection,
contraries, and-most of all-love.
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