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Also by Terrance Hayes:

So to Speak, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Watch Your Language, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
How to Be Drawn, April 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Lighthead, April 2010
Paperback
Wind in a Box, April 2006
Paperback
Muscular Music, April 2005
Paperback
Hip Logic, June 2002
Paperback

LIGHTHEAD
By: Terrance Hayes

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry

Penguin
April 2010
On Sale: March 30, 2010
95 pages
ISBN: 0143116967
EAN: 9780143116967
Paperback
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Fiction Poetry

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 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.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - November 19, 2010