Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Hayes, Terrance

Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143137733)

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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Hayes, Terrance

Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

$20.00
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Hayes, Terrance

Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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"Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres." --The Washington Post

"Hayes [is] one of the best and most important poets now writing." --Craig Morgan Teicher, Poetry

From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry--to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to Speak

Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison's aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark ("I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography"), Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. "If you don't see suffering's potential as art, will it remain suffering?" he asks in one of the lively mock poetry exam questions of this musing, mercurial collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.

Author: Terrance Hayes
ISBN-10: 0143137735
ISBN-13: 9780143137733
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 23
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 15
Library Journal 10/27/2023 pg. 1
School Library Journal 03/01/2024 pg. 96
By Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
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Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other poetry collections are American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, How to Be Drawn, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music, and he is also the author of To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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