So to Speak Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

So to Speak Theresa Hak Kyung ChaTerrance Hayes The three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In "Watch Your Mouth," a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in "Watch Your Step: The Kafka Virus," a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in "Watch Your Head," green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne, and Bob Ross paints your portrait. On the one

First issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993

tenderness and violence all find expression in poems powered by grief's tidal undertow

and unparalleled

The going is hard

loneliness

U vindt in deze bundel natuurlyriek

this book points to the wound of being extricated

Welke begeertes

Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing

An accomplished fiction writer

its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind

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