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Terrance Hayes
A dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Since the publication of his first book, Muscular Music…
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'Vital and energetic . . . These are the poems of a certain age: scars so old others must tell you how they are made . . . Hayes is…
A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America’s most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead.
The second collection of poetry from the author ofLighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
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The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
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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, Hayes explores how we…
"This collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry establishes the roots of Terrance Hayes's poetic influences and reconstructs modes of poetic…
"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--
A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award-winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes,American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of…
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. These poems are haunted by the country’s…
A reissuing of Muscular Music, the debut poetry collection by Terrance Hayes.
Wanda Coleman
The time has never been better for this re-introduction of Wanda Coleman’s work to a new audience of readers.
Susan Meyers
A work selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. In this collection, the author guides us through her examination of life’s ordinary…
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Simon Shieh
This collection follows the writer's struggle with masculinity from a small town in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. As much as it is the story of…
James Tate
An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes
Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything…
Lytton Smith
A masterful debut collection by poet Lytton Smith, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Dr Christopher Gilbert
A milestone publication of the late Christopher Gilbert’s poetry, with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes
Lord, the anguish of my Black block rises up in…
Celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner Terrance Hayes. An…
Hell, I love everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate re-introduces the poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and season.
