Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)

Name: Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)
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ISBN: 9780143116967

by Terrance Hayes

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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, 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.

Publisher:: Penguin Books
ISBN:: 9780143116967
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 112
Authors:: Terrance Hayes
Published Date:: 2010-03-30
Language:: English

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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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