¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English
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Author: Daniel Hales
Price: $16.00 (pbk.); TBD (ebook) ISBNs: 9781642510218 (pbk.); 9781642510225 (ebook) Physical description: 6X9; 118 p. Publication date: April 21, 2020 Forthcoming |
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Questions feeling plagued by certainty? sick of Coppertoned answers
kicking sand in your pasty face?
Question ever wondered how to make a whiz bang question
in the comfort and privacy of your own head?
Question once you’ve made an especially special question
what’s the best way to care for and swaddle it
when it’s still a vulnerable flightless hatchling?
Questions how do I keep my question from succumbing to peer pressure?
how to keep question from making a monogamous
commitment to a seductive answer in feckless haste?
If you found yourself muttering yes? maybe? no? to any of these questions, then
¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English is the How To book for you This is the handy catchall manual the ultimate compendium the perfect printed companion providing meticulous step-by-step instructions on how to question all the important answers you’ve been searching for your whole life
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¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English explores the spaces from which questions arise -- the memories, musings, and metaphysics we use to seek out meaning in life. Riffing on the literal translation of the Spanish phrase "hacer pregunatas," these sixty-nine (or are there?) poems focus on the making of questions, rather than the answering of them. They interrogate everything from the mundane ("How To Pass The Time" "How To Write A Cover Letter"), to the sublime ("How To Transform Base Matter Into Gold" "How To Find God"), to the surreal ("How To Enter The Fifth Dimension" "How To Keep A Secret You Don’t Know"). This collection is sure to disappoint anyone wanting answers or guidance. But for anyone willing to be involved in the creation, the making, of life's important questions, this is the book for you.
kicking sand in your pasty face?
Question ever wondered how to make a whiz bang question
in the comfort and privacy of your own head?
Question once you’ve made an especially special question
what’s the best way to care for and swaddle it
when it’s still a vulnerable flightless hatchling?
Questions how do I keep my question from succumbing to peer pressure?
how to keep question from making a monogamous
commitment to a seductive answer in feckless haste?
If you found yourself muttering yes? maybe? no? to any of these questions, then
¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English is the How To book for you This is the handy catchall manual the ultimate compendium the perfect printed companion providing meticulous step-by-step instructions on how to question all the important answers you’ve been searching for your whole life
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¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English explores the spaces from which questions arise -- the memories, musings, and metaphysics we use to seek out meaning in life. Riffing on the literal translation of the Spanish phrase "hacer pregunatas," these sixty-nine (or are there?) poems focus on the making of questions, rather than the answering of them. They interrogate everything from the mundane ("How To Pass The Time" "How To Write A Cover Letter"), to the sublime ("How To Transform Base Matter Into Gold" "How To Find God"), to the surreal ("How To Enter The Fifth Dimension" "How To Keep A Secret You Don’t Know"). This collection is sure to disappoint anyone wanting answers or guidance. But for anyone willing to be involved in the creation, the making, of life's important questions, this is the book for you.
Daniel Hales is the author of the hybrid novel, Run Story (Shape&Nature Press), and three poetry chapbooks: Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), and Tempo Maps (Ixnay), which comes with the companion CD Miner Street Symphony. His poetry, flash fiction, and hybrid writing have appeared in Verse Daily, Conduit, Booth, Quarter After Eight, and many other journals. He rocks out with The Frost Heaves and Hales, The Ambiguities, and Umbral. Umbral’s second album, F#requency 14, is forthcoming from Spork Press. He lives on a minor street in western Massachusetts, but is happiest in his kayak.
What advance readers are saying:
"How to say just the right thing about this book? It anticipates all the questions. If you’ve ever wondered how to win a war with outer space, you’ve come to the right place. Part Poor Richard's Almanack, part Dada Manifesto, Daniel Hales here performs the ultimate demonstration of the Socratic method: by holding his guitar right up against the amplifier. These marvelous and restless poems are a celebration of the mind at work, which Hales knows is indistinguishable from the mind at play. How to read this book? Open it to the first page and begin immediately."
Dobby Gibson, author of Little Glass Planet
"Are you looking for a missing cat, covered bridges, iridescence, enlightenment, God? Poetry can be an instruction manual. It can be a means by which what's outside is inside and what's inside is outside; Daniel Hales looks everywhere for what's hidden and examines everyday and eternal mysteries with humor and care."
Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing
To open Daniel Hales’ ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? is to enter a cabinet of wonders curated by a rad scientist, who, just possibly, returned from expedition in search of winged monkeys or coelacanths. Outfitted with a voracious curiosity and a nimble mind, Hales knows the best questions begin not with “why” but with “how” and that the search for answers is both more important and more satisfying than the answers themselves. Throughout this collection, Hales demonstrates an irrepressible wit, a musician’s ear, and a command of language that propels us past expectations to the very threshold of wonder. His charming playfulness may have brought us here, but it’s Hales’ understated tenderness that unlocks the door and invites us in.
William Waltz, editor of Conduit & author of Zoo Music
"How to say just the right thing about this book? It anticipates all the questions. If you’ve ever wondered how to win a war with outer space, you’ve come to the right place. Part Poor Richard's Almanack, part Dada Manifesto, Daniel Hales here performs the ultimate demonstration of the Socratic method: by holding his guitar right up against the amplifier. These marvelous and restless poems are a celebration of the mind at work, which Hales knows is indistinguishable from the mind at play. How to read this book? Open it to the first page and begin immediately."
Dobby Gibson, author of Little Glass Planet
"Are you looking for a missing cat, covered bridges, iridescence, enlightenment, God? Poetry can be an instruction manual. It can be a means by which what's outside is inside and what's inside is outside; Daniel Hales looks everywhere for what's hidden and examines everyday and eternal mysteries with humor and care."
Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing
To open Daniel Hales’ ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? is to enter a cabinet of wonders curated by a rad scientist, who, just possibly, returned from expedition in search of winged monkeys or coelacanths. Outfitted with a voracious curiosity and a nimble mind, Hales knows the best questions begin not with “why” but with “how” and that the search for answers is both more important and more satisfying than the answers themselves. Throughout this collection, Hales demonstrates an irrepressible wit, a musician’s ear, and a command of language that propels us past expectations to the very threshold of wonder. His charming playfulness may have brought us here, but it’s Hales’ understated tenderness that unlocks the door and invites us in.
William Waltz, editor of Conduit & author of Zoo Music