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How to Be Drawn

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A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780143126881
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Terrance Hayes
Published Date:
2015-03-31
Language:
English

About Terrance Hayes

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and earned a BA from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier collections include Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at New York University.

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