Lighthead
Poems (National Book Award Winner)
$36.14
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2010
Summary
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, Harri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143116967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143116967 |
| Author: | Terrance Hayes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 140mm x 213mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Critics Review
“Hayes’s work is terrific … it’s grounded in narrative even as it’s linguistically dense and playful, with allusions to formal verse traditions and to pop culture new and old.” – The New York Times
“Lighthead displays a riffing, wildly relentless insistence and astonishing brio … Hayes breaks down categories and builds up forms with acrobatic glee.” – Megan O’Rourke, The Year’s Best Poetry, npr.org.
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music.
His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
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