So To Speak by Terrance Hayes
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
Liverpool University Press fear and longing

fear and longing

was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East

Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance - the infinite void of a loved one's absence

is that such poetry is not only possible but absolutely necessary

” “Not fantasizing

So To Speak by Terrance Hayes<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Liverpool University Press fear and longing'Vital and energetic . . . These are the poems of a certain age: scars so old others must tell you how they are made . . . Hayes is a singular poet, and this book a singular achievement' Nick Laird A dazzling new collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinIn So to Speak, the dazzling new collection by Terrance Hayes, the poet seeks to understand how we see ourselves now. He