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Also by Terrance Hayes:

Watch Your Language, August 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
So to Speak, 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

HOW TO BE DRAWN
By: Terrance Hayes

Penguin
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
112 pages
ISBN: 0143126881
EAN: 9780143126881
Kindle: B00L9B7SNQ
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry

A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award– winning author of LIGHTHEAD In HOW TO BE DRAWN, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes’s award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed, How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.

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