{"product_id":"love-language-paperback-1","title":"Love Language - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNasser Hussain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his follow-up to \u003ci\u003eSKY WRI TEI NGS\u003c\/i\u003e, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language\u003c\/b\u003eThe term \"Love Language\" can be read at least three ways: as an imperative, as the signoff to a letter, and as a contemporary way of talking about relationship styles. None of these would be wrong in this book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Language\u003c\/i\u003e loves language. These are poems that repeat and hypnotize as English becomes more absurd: from Apple's terms and conditions to other poet's love poems, from performance reports to pop songs, Hussain skillfully and joyfully toys with everyday texts to talk about love, to think about poems, to call out racism, to remind us that words can be fun. Allow these playful poems to woo you, to let you fall in love with language again.\u003cp\u003e\"Think of 'time as a lantern, ' suggests Nasser Hussain, in these inimitable poems that take play seriously and allow seriousness to enter the room disguised as incantation. These are poems that long to dismiss the lyric's most recent pretty mask of polite propriety and instead take us to the lyric's ancient roots. It started way back, the poet says, 'when a cave person made a grunt, ' to speak the name of a thing. Indeed. This is the lyric's ancient pact with the world: to spin playful language into seriousness of giving things their names--what are we without this speaking, this tune? Hussain knows this and writes beautiful poems--and I, for one, am grateful.\" - \u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hussain's humour is never complacent; it is the opposite of a defence mechanism (we are encouraged to imagine such a thing) and wryly sidesteps the bad binary of conservative withdrawal as set against algorithm-envenomed hyperassertion. He puts into words a new masculinity maturer than we deserve, that acknowledges swerves of defiance to be inseparable from underswells of doubt.\" - \u003cb\u003eVidyan Ravinthiran, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNasser Hussain is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University in the U.K. His previous book, \u003ci\u003eSKY WRI TEI NGS\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House Books, 2018), was an exploration of poetic constraint that focused on the intersection between things that 'move' us (in this case, planes and poems). \u003ci\u003eLove Language\u003c\/i\u003e is his third book. He lives in Leeds, U.K.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.8 x 4.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459305947314,"sku":"9781552454718","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7fa13d54328023fc4ac36a6da2258f57.webp?v=1778900915","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/love-language-paperback-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}