Terrance Hayes, Author . Penguin $23 (95p) ISBN 978-0-14-303686-9
In this searching follow-up to the acclaimed Hip Logic
, Hayes bluntly concludes that "everyone/ is a descendant of slaves" and, more tentatively, wonders "if outrunning your captors is not the real meaning of Race?" A series of "
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Terrance Hayes, Author . Penguin $18 (95p) ISBN 978-0-14-311696-7
The deservedly acclaimed Hayes returns in his fourth book with the kinds of sly, twisting, hip, jazzy poems his fans have come to expect, but also with a new somberness of tone and mature caution. “You can spend your whole life/ doing no more...
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Terrance Hayes, Author Penguin Books $18 (96p) ISBN 978-0-14-200139-4
""Forgive this letter covered in paint. There are no rags around me. I can't tell you where I am, but where I ain't."" Selected by Cornelius Eady for the National Poetry Series, Terrance Hayes's Hip Logic is divided into five sections of fast-pace
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Terrance Hayes. Penguin, $20 (100p) ISBN 978-0-14-312688-1
Hayes delivers another stunner, following up his 2010 National Book Award–winning Lighthead with a collection that sees the poet thinking more deeply about perception—the public and private, the viewed and ignored. In the opening poem, readers...
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Terrance Hayes. Penguin, $18 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-313318-6
Hayes (How to Be Drawn) addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America’s penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of Hayes’s signature rhythmic...
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Terrance Hayes. Wave, $25 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-940696-61-4
National Book Award-winning poet Hayes (American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin) plunges into creative nonfiction with this book about another poet, Etheridge Knight, cautioning readers that “this is not a biography.” Throughout, Hayes...
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Terrance Hayes. Penguin, $20 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-313772-6
Across three various and virtuosic sections, Hayes (American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin) examines the personal and public, from fatherhood to the murder of George Floyd, in his muscular and meditative seventh collection. With a...
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