A new collection from the award winner who has become one of
the most compelling new voices in American poetry
Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with
disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of
phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an
artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular
Music, he took the reader through a living library of
cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane
and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued
these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural
heritage, and loss.
Wind in a Box, Hayes's resonant new
collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of
poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and
embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within
containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes
explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and
spirituality.
This new book displays not only what the Los
Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also
the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.
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