Lighthead

English

Series: Poets, Penguin Ser.

ISBN: 0143116967

EAN: 9780143116967

Category: Poetry / General

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 03/31/2010

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways 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, Lightheadleaves us illuminated and scorched.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  National Book Awards – null  National Book Awards – null 

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Lighthead

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.31 inches

Width: 5.56 inches

Length: 8.52 inches

Weight: 4.48 oz

Pages: 112