Hip Logic
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Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to capture the nuances of contemporary male African American identity and confirms Hayes's reputation as one of the most compelling new voices in American poetry.
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I. At the First Clear Word Emcee Touch The Things-No-One-Knows Blues ARS Poetica #789 Hip Logic Sonnet Mr. T- Shaft and the Enchanted Shoe Factory or ARS Poetica: The Epic Quest for Language Squawk Butter Origin of the Days Gospel of the Two Sisters
II. A Gram of &s Abductor Although Ambulance Apothecary Beckoned Bowling Breathe Careless Corporal Example
III. Conjure Friday Poem For Paul Robeson Diego Rivera - Dama de Blanco, 1939 For Robert Hayden Broken Dangerfield Newby Villanelle William H. Johnson Ode to Balthus The Gulf Stream/Four Studies Sleeping Woman Still Music
IV. A Gram of &s Gander General Masculine Nuclear Overseas Preface Repaid Saintly Segregate Stupor Toenails
V. The Law of Falling and Catching Up Fire Gun/Woman/Son Heartthrob Mother and Son Blues Procession Florida The Flame Ode to Stone Alter Call Autumn The Same City
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