Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry Hayes Terrance
"Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres." --The Washington PostFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic…
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"Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres." --The Washington PostFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry--to be published simultaneously with his latest poetry collection, So to SpeakCanonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes's brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison's aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark ("I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography"), Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose