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Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryWatch 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 presenta-tion 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.
Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes, won the National Book Award in 2010 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music are his other novels. A National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship are among his accolades. His most recent book of poems, How To Be Drawn, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and won the NAACP Image Award for Poetry in 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143116967 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143116967 |
| Title | Lighthead |
| Author | Terrance Hayes |
| Series | Penguin Poets |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Award. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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