Terrance Hayes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
91 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry establishes the roots of Terrance Hayes's poetic influences and reconstructs modes of poetic engagement, demonstrating what makes a poem both move and be moving and illustrating how drawing itself can be a kind of critical, poetic discourse"--
3) So to speak
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 90 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--
Series
Best American poetry volume 27
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 203 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring 75 poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Mary Ruefle and Frederick Seidel.
5) Lighthead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
ix, 95 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It sets what it means to be "light longing for lightness" against what it means to "burn with all the humanity fire strips away." Hayes navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime.--From publisher description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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