Watch Your Language
By Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
Read by Terrance Hayes
By Terrance Hayes
Read by Terrance Hayes
Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism | Essays & Literary Collections
Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism | Essays & Literary Collections
Category: Poetry | Audiobooks | Literary Criticism | Essays & Literary Collections
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Paperback $20.00
Jul 18, 2023 | ISBN 9780143137733
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So to Speak
Gabriel
A Possible World
Drift
The Happiness of this World
How to Be Drawn
Americana
Correspondences
Modest Gifts
Praise
Praise for Watch Your Language:
“A dazzling homage . . . [Watch Your Language is] a verbal and visual feast that defies genres . . . exhilerating . . . Time and time again, [Hayes] introduces a phrase or form that appears familiar, then radically reinvents it. The results are strange, sometimes surreal and always sublimely surprising . . . [He] continues to devise language well worth watching.” —The Washington Post
“A wildly entertaining and honest view into a poet and artist’s rangy mind.” —The Millions
“When one of America’s great poets assembles his poetic origin story in a collage-like collection of mini essays, illustrations, prose fragments, and assorted feuilletons of a life in poetry, it behooves us all to pay attention. In examining his own path to poetry, Terrance Hayes also manages to excavate a century of nearly forgotten African American poets, reminding us all of the very narrow poetic canon that predominates to this day in the academy. Essential reading.” —LitHub
“A freewheeling work of creative originality . . . Equal parts zine, poetic bibliography, and interior atlas to Hayes’ literary inheritance, this imaginative undertaking will intrigue aficionados of the author’s expanding oeuvre and anyone looking for artistic inspiration.” —Booklist
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