EAN: 9781802063387

SO TO SPEAK - TERRANCE HAYES KARTONIERT (TB)

'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 LairdA dazzling new collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of
American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinIn 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.

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