Mannish Tongues
jayy dodd
978-0-9935321-7-7 · 112 pages · 156 × 234 mm · Feb. 2017
To speak in tongues is to be possessed / overcome by your own body. This collection speaks to these charades of understanding / some things about language, something about possessions & higher powers.
jayy dodd is a blxk question mark from los angeles, california, based on the internet. they are a writer & editor & performance artist. antagonistically queer & unapologetically blxk, they were raised to be a preaching cowboy—this is the next best thing. their first collection of poems, [sugar in the tank], was released on Pizza Pi Press.
Praise & Reviews
Mannish Tongues asks its readers to reckon with the materials out of which memory, desire, family, and faith emerge.
— Keguro Macharia
[T]he unclassifiable beauty of Mannish Tongues begins with jayy’s take on a poetic line.
— Robert Lashley
[A]n honest and lyrical exploration of gender, sexuality, and Blackness.
— Latonya Pennington, Pride
Every time I read their words, I leave [the] Earth.
— Morgan Jerkins
[An] incredible poetry collection.
— AFROPUNK
Singular, wrought, rhythmic, pulsing.
— Devin Kelly
[A] linguistic treat.
— Ian McMillan
Excerpts
- Mr. Tournament at the Pool Party — Winter Tangerine
- Black Philosophy #3 — The Shade Journal
- Hyel’s Zumbi — Guernica
Misc.
- An Interview with jayy dodd — Los Angeles Review of Book
- Interview with jayy dodd, author of Mannish Tongues — Entropy
- interview: jayy dodd — Fields Magazine
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