Terrance Hayes
1) So to speak
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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" 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...
2) 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...
4) Lighthead
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It sets what it means to be "light longing for lightness" against what it means to "burn with all the humanity fire strips away." Hayes navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime.--From publisher description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry establishes the roots of Terrance Hayes's poetic influences and reconstructs modes of poetic engagement, demonstrating what makes a poem both move and be moving and illustrating how drawing itself can be a kind of critical, poetic discourse"--
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...
Series
Best American poetry volume 27
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring 75 poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Mary Ruefle and Frederick Seidel.
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Language
English
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A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality—here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.
One of the most talked about literary collections of the year is this collection by a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity about her life on the margins. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of Coleman's poems spanning four decades, edited and introduced...
One of the most talked about literary collections of the year is this collection by a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity about her life on the margins. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of Coleman's poems spanning four decades, edited and introduced...
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