Most apparent is his joy in language – forever mixing and matching unlikely words, sounds and ideas in a voice tough as Tarmac.
It is, for all its profound sadnesses, an exuberant account, overflowing with life and with a joy in language.
Driven by the joy of language and quite a bit of humor, Mr. Weiner's ebullient work asks tough questions about who makes or owns art, where it can occur and how long it lasts.
You can feel, again, through the sadness, the sparks of joy in language: the delight of using a word like "surmount," the small thrill of that quiet, heart-stopping hesitation.
But God is here, too, and Ali and Jack Kerouac and the great Puerto Rican migration and Dr. Seuss; so along with the politics of dislocation and the problems of assimilation and richer and poorer and neighborhoods and classrooms come fun and a feverish joy of language.
Forget joy of language and the fun of discovery in poetry, this is line-by-line dissection, painful and delivered without anesthetic.
It becomes simultaneously a love letter to the joy of language and a eulogy to a time that was, in effect, our country's teenage years.
Yip seemed dedicated to the exploration and joy of language - he had countless notebooks in which he would capture all types of phrases or words, and he would often rework a concept or a lyric approach multiple times and in different songs.
Have fun with it though––it's a different way of thinking and that's part of the joy of language learning.
The museum is a wonderful eighteenth-century oddity in an otherwise mock-Georgian square, a place devoted to the joys of language.
