"On Terrance Hayes's So To Speak and Watch Your Language"
"The simultaneous release of Hayes’s two new books invites us to consider how they speak to and provide context for each other despite their obvious individual merits. Working with traditional and experimental form respectively, So to Speak and Watch Your Language both respond to an American reality that tends to forget, undermine, and attack the Black experience."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nathan Spoon on Language as Form
"'I Have a Vision for My Poems' belongs to a series of Sylvia Plath found poems Nazifa Islam is writing 'to dissect, examine, and explore the bipolar experience.' The poem exemplifies how Islam is using this series to openly connect with a disabled ancestor, which is important because, while various cognitive disabilities have probably existed as long as humans have, the language to frame and see them as distinct embodiments and identities has not." |
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