Lighthead, Paperback

Descriere

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry 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.""

Despre autor

Terrance Hayes

poet american · n. 1971

Terrance Hayes este un poet și educator american care a publicat șapte colecții de poezie. Colecția sa din 2010, Lighthead, a câștigat premiul National Book Award pentru poezie în 2010. În 2014, a primit o bursă MacArthur.