Refresh and try again. An incredibly solid and skilful collection. Sometimes my body is a guitar, a hole waiting in wood, wires. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. Welcome back. But a bunch were amazing. His poems bleed with a headiness that both expands and contracts the reader, filling your own inner mental void with the universes his ideas inhabit. "And Now She's Gone should be at the top of your must-read list. Hayes’s fourth book puts invincibly restless wordplay at the service of strong emotions: a son’s frustration, a husband’s love, a citizen’s righteous anger and a friend’s erotic jealousy animate these technically astute, even puzzlelike, lines.New York Times Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. I don’t think that. In this book, Terrence Hayes does something that I've never quite seen done before; he's smoothly synthesized the sound-and-emotion-oriented style of spoken-word poetry with the artful arrangement and order of more conceptual, academic poetry. Lighthead shows poetry in very creative forms. - Publishers Weekly The result though is an expansive se. I enjoyed reading his works so much that I looked up Terrance Hayes on the internet and watched his acceptance speech for when he received the National Book Award for this work. $39 for a year. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It was developed to make presentations valid and not overblown and long. And even driving the car, you’re making a decision. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets). In my ongoing quest to find a poet (or poets) that I enjoy reading, I read this selection. That answer comes back to the question of Trump versus poetry. . [7] He won the National Book Award for Lighthead[1] (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form). "My Aesthetic Schizophrenia: An Interview with Terrence Hayes", Jonathan Moody, Audio: Terrance Hayes Reading for From the Fishouse, Library of Congress Online Catalog > Terrance Hayes, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terrance_Hayes&oldid=982033908, Articles with short description added by PearBOT 5, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 20:25. Terrance Hayes. I have tried to get through this book 3 different times, but it never fully engaged me. 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The themes that are found in these poems vary from race, family, society, relationships, love, hate, etc. Wind In a Box showed the same dizzying maelstrom of forms, influence, and themes as Lighthead. More Author Information These collected poems are at times surreal, at times narrative, and at times an updated pecha kucha, but the breath within each line is still singular and imaginative. © BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Pecha kuchas: interesting (one inspired by Fela songs). After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Because poetry asks you to trust some combination of head and guts. To read "Lighthead: Poems" by Terrance Hayes is to enter a world that's distinctly uncomfortable, almost jarring, as if the familiar has become dislocated. 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