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Watch your language visual and literary reflections on a century of American poetry

Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brillian contemplations of personal and allegorical literary development.... Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical...

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Main Author: Hayes, Terrance (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poetics.
African American poets.
Literary criticism.
Creative nonfiction.
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Summary:Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brillian contemplations of personal and allegorical literary development.... 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, mercural collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routs, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.
Physical Description:xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:9780143137733
0143137735
Author Notes: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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