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Briefing Books: Lauded poet Terrance Hayes heads to Pitt ...
Terrance Hayes, the winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry, is leaving Carnegie Mellon University to join the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh ...
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“American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)” (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 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-- In Seventy Poems Bearing The Same Title, Terrance Hayes Explores The Meanings Of American, Of Assassin, And Of Love In The Sonnet Form. These Poems Are Haunted By The Country's Past And Future Eras And Errors, Its Dreams And Nightmares-- Terrance Hayes.
“How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets)” (2015)
A Finalist For The 2015 National Book Award And The National Book Critics Circle Award Watch For The New Collection Of Poetry From Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin, Coming In June Of 2018 In How To Be Drawn, His Daring Fifth Collection, Terrance Hayes Explores How We See And Are Seen. While Many Of These Poems Bear The Clearest Imprint Yet Of Hayes's Background As A Visual Artist, They Do Not Strive To Describe Art So Much As Inhabit It. Thus, One Poem Contemplates The Principle Of Blind Contour Drawing While Others Are Inspired By Maps, Graphs, And Assorted Artists. The Formal And Emotional Versatilities That Distinguish Hayes's Award-winning Poetry Are Unified By Existential Focus. Simultaneously Complex And Transparent, Urgent And Composed, How To Be Drawn Is A Mesmerizing Achievement.
“Lighthead: Poems (Penguin Poets)” (2010)
From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways 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.
“Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)” (2006)
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.
“Hip Logic (Penguin Poets)” (2002)
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.
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