| Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) Contributor(s): Hayes, Terrance (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143116967 ISBN-13: 9780143116967 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2009053319 |
| Series: Penguin Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.56" (0.28 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |