Watch your language : visual and literary reflections on a century of American poetry
Terrance Hayes (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2023
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [New York, New York], 2023