Lighthead

2010-03-30 Poetry

Author : Terrance Hayes
Release : 2010-03-30
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lighthead by : Terrance Hayes

Download or read book Lighthead written by Terrance Hayes. This book was released on 2010-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

2018-06-19 Poetry

Author : Terrance Hayes
Release : 2018-06-19
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin written by Terrance Hayes. This book was released on 2018-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.

Hip Logic

2002-05-28 Poetry

Author : Terrance Hayes
Release : 2002-05-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 292/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hip Logic written by Terrance Hayes. This book was released on 2002-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to capture the nuances of contemporary male African American identity and confirms Hayes's reputation as one of the most compelling new voices in American poetry.

Wind in a Box

2006-03-28 Poetry

Author : Terrance Hayes
Release : 2006-03-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 869/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wind in a Box written by Terrance Hayes. This book was released on 2006-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.

Muscular Music

2006 Poetry

Author : Terrance Hayes
Release : 2006
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Muscular Music by : Terrance Hayes

Download or read book Muscular Music written by Terrance Hayes. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissuing of Muscular Music, the debut poetry collection by Terrance Hayes.

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