So to Speak by Terrance Hayes Groundswell Speaker 2024 our myths led us to

our myths led us to the fascism of 2022

and how to serve them

these highly trained spies moan and squabble

hinting that a killer will strike again

So to Speak by Terrance Hayes Groundswell Speaker 2024 our myths led us toA dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Since the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, in 1999, Terrance Hayes has been one of America's most exciting and innovative poets, winning acclaim for his sly, twisting, jazzy poems, and his mastery of emotive, restless wordplay. In So to Speak, his seventh collection, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of