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So to Speak
by Terrance Hayes

Publication Date: Jul 25, 2023
List Price: $20.00
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780143137726
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Paperback Description:

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.




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