How to Be Drawn
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2015
112 pages
978-0-698-18319-3 (ISBN)
Description
A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018
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.
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018
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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Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Also by Terrance Hayes
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- I. TROUBLED BODIES
- WHAT IT LOOK LIKE
- THE DEER
- HOW TO BE DRAWN TO TROUBLE
- NEW YORK POEM
- AS TRAFFIC
- WIGPHRASTIC
- MY LIFE AS A HUMMER
- GENTLE MEASURES
- A CONCEPT OF SURVIVAL
- WHO ARE THE TRIBES
- II. INVISIBLE SOULS
- BLACK CONFEDERATE GHOST STORY
- HOW TO DRAW AN INVISIBLE MAN
- BARBERISM
- THE CARPENTER ANT
- AMERICAN SONNET FOR WANDA C.
- LIKE MERCY
- A. MACHINE
- PORTRAIT OF ETHERIDGE KNIGHT IN THE STYLE OF A CRIME REPORT: PART I
- PORTRAIT OF ETHERIDGE KNIGHT IN THE STYLE OF A CRIME REPORT: PART II
- PORTRAIT OF ETHERIDGE KNIGHT IN THE STYLE OF A CRIME REPORT: PART III
- ELEGY WITH ZOMBIES FOR LIFE
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SÉANCE WITH VLADIMIRS
- III. A CIRCLING MIND
- THE ROSE HAS TEETH
- ANTEBELLUM HOUSE PARTY
- RECONSTRUCTED RECONSTRUCTION
- WE SHOULD MAKE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SPADES
- FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
- MODEL PRISON MODEL
- SOME MAPS TO INDICATE PITTSBURGH
- NEW JERSEY POEM
- SELF-PORTRAIT AS THE MIND OF A CAMERA
- HOW TO DRAW A PERFECT CIRCLE
- ARS POETICA FOR THE ONES LIKE US
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
