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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)

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by Terrance Hayes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Terrance HayesSeries:Penguin PoetsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-03-30Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116967ISBN-10:143116967UPC:9780143116967Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2010 National Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Poetry Award|2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry AwardSize:8.56 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC4YR4E5MT
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116967ISBN-10:143116967UPC:9780143116967Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2010 National Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Poetry Award|2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry AwardSize:8.56 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC4YR4E5MT
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
Publisher: Penguin Books

Awards

🏆 2010 National Book Awards Winner - Poetry Award|2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Poetry Award|2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Poetry Award

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Terrance Hayes

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