{"product_id":"so-to-speak-paperback","title":"So to Speak - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e--to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eWatch Your Language \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 Step: 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. \u003ci\u003eSo To Speak\u003c\/i\u003e is the mature, restless work of one of contemporary poetry's leading voices.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other poetry collections are \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWind in a Box\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMuscular Music\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is also the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at NYU.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760929800480,"sku":"9780143137726","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/343c49fe9c0e789d7c92bd7d048ff9ea.webp?v=1780194502","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/so-to-speak-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}