{"title":"Terrance Hayes","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin","title":"American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best American Poetry Book of the 21st Century (So Far) by \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793321590826,"sku":"9780143133186","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin-9133681.jpg?v=1762150761"},{"product_id":"lighthead-poems-national-book-award-winner","title":"Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in June of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e leaves us illuminated and scorched.","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793321754666,"sku":"9780143116967","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/lighthead-poems-national-book-award-winner-1004484.jpg?v=1762150760"},{"product_id":"wind-in-a-box","title":"Wind in a Box","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third collection of poetry from the author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2010 National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in June of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eMuscular Music\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003cb\u003eWind in a Box\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e calls the range of a \"bold virtuoso,\" but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322147882,"sku":"9780143036869","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/wind-in-a-box-3668054.jpg?v=1762150760"},{"product_id":"hip-logic","title":"Hip Logic","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second collection of poetry from the author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2010 National Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in June of 2018 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, \u003ci\u003eHip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eHip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322475562,"sku":"9780142001394","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/hip-logic-7524818.jpg?v=1762150760"},{"product_id":"how-to-be-drawn","title":"How to Be Drawn","description":"\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e How to Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing achievement.","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322672170,"sku":"9780143126881","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/how-to-be-drawn-3359551.jpg?v=1762150760"},{"product_id":"so-to-speak","title":"So to Speak","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e--to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eWatch Your Language \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. 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