Lighthead: Poems (Penguin Poets) Paperback - 2010
by Hayes, Terrance
- Used
- Signed
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 presentaÿtion 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.
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Details
- Title Lighthead: Poems (Penguin Poets)
- Author Hayes, Terrance
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Collectible - Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, -
- Date 2010-03-30
- Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # U05OS-00399
- ISBN 9780143116967 / 0143116967
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.4 x 0.3 in (21.74 x 13.72 x 0.76 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry - African American authors
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009053319
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Summary
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.
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/15/2010, Page 89
- New York Times Book Review, 04/25/2010, Page 18
- New Yorker (The), 05/11/2015, Page 78
- Publishers Weekly, 03/22/2010, Page 53
