Terrance Hayes: So to Speak
So to Speak
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 07/2024
- Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781802063394
- Order number: 11678005
- Volume: 112 Pages
- Weight: 200 g
- Format: 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness: 15 mm
- Release date: 25.7.2024
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Blurb
A dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinSince the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, 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 So to Speak, 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.