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Terrance Hayes
"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…
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A reissuing of Muscular Music, the debut poetry collection by Terrance Hayes.
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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 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…
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The second collection of poetry from the author ofLighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My…
The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for…
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.
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.
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…
"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"--
'Vital and energetic . . . These are the poems of a certain age: scars so old others must tell you how they are made . . . Hayes is…
Wanda Coleman
The time has never been better for this re-introduction of Wanda Coleman’s work to a new audience of readers.
Lytton Smith
A masterful debut collection by poet Lytton Smith, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
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Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring poets such as Sherman Alexie, Ross Gay, Hailey Leithauser, and Jon Sands.
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…
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.
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