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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)

Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)

Hayes, Terrance

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0143116967
ISBN13: 9780143116967
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Mar 30 2010
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Awards: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award
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.

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