{"product_id":"so-to-speak-terrance-hayes","title":"So To Speak;  Terrance Hayes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead —to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your Language\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe three sections of Terrance Hayes’ seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In “Watch Your Mouth,” a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in “Watch Your The Kafka Virus,” a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in “Watch Your Head,“ green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait. On the one hand, these fabulous fables, American sonnets, quarantine quatrains, and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas animate what Toni Morrison called “the writerly imagination of a black author who is at some level always conscious of representing one’s own race.” On the other hand, these urgent, personal poems contemplate fatherhood, history, and longing with remarkable openness and humanity. So To Speak is the mature, restless work of one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly 18, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTerrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47827790659906,"sku":"","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/sotospeak.jpg?v=1708366633","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/so-to-speak-terrance-hayes","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}