{"product_id":"watch-your-language-terrance-hayes-9780143137733","title":"Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hayes [is] \u003c\/b\u003eone of the best and most important poets now writing.\" --Craig Morgan Teicher, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eSo to Speak\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCanonized, 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 \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (\"I want to draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography\"), \u003ci\u003eWatch Your Language\u003c\/i\u003e charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. 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, mercurial collection. Hayes's astonishing drawings and essays literally and figuratively map the acclaimed poet's routes, roots, and wanderings through the landscape of contemporary poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Terrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143137735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/27\/2023 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024 pg. 96","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072432107775,"sku":"9780143137733","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0aadc6a-9b6b-4393-af47-3ab61cff0689.jpg?v=1685441930","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/watch-your-language-terrance-hayes-9780143137733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}