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How to be drawn
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How to be drawn / Terrance Hayes.
ISBN
9780143126881 (pbk.)
0143126881 (pbk.)
Publication
New York City : Penguin Books, 2015.
Physical Description
ix, 99 pages ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN JWJ Zan H329 2015Hc: Number line on t.p. verso indicates third printing: "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4." Paperbound.
Summary
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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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2015
Series
Penguin poets
Contents
Troubled bodies
Invisible souls
A circling mind.
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