Terrance Hayes
1) Hip logic
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At the First Clear Word -- emcee -- Touch -- The things-no-one-knows blues -- Ars poetica #789 -- Hip logic -- Sonnet -- Mr. T- --Shaft & the enchanted shoe factory or -- Ars poetica: The epic quest for language -- Squawk -- Butter -- Origin of the days -- Gospel of the two sisters / A Gram of &s -- abductor -- although -- ambulance -- apothecary -- beckoned -- bowling -- breathe -- careless -- corporal -- example / Conjure -- Friday poem -- For Paul...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
3) So to speak
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
" A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead-to be published simultaneously with his latest work of literary criticism, Watch Your Language. The 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. In "Watch Your Mouth," a tree frog sings to overcome its fear...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Series
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert's poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes. Christopher Gilbert's award-winning "Across the Mutual Landscape" has become an underground classic of contemporary American poetry. Now reissued and presented with Gilbert's never-before-published last manuscript written before his death in 2007, "Turning into Dwelling" offers new readers the original music and...
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