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From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
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Michael Dales
reviewed Lighthead on December 25, 2010 Lighthead
Very much worthy of the recognition it has received, including this year's National Book Award. Hayes' poetry is what we most hope for in the art: a natural attention to language that manifests equally in the sound and the sense of it. The auricular pleasures are both audible and subtle: "The bride of eaves or the easy bride of naves."
In one poem, Hayes plaits the old story of the four blind men trying to describe the elephant with meditations on the body and boundaries. In another, he uses Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" to provide end-words for his lines. Though there's a pure pleasure to Hayes' inventiveness, there's also immeasurable gravitas in how that knack for invention illuminates the larger world of the collection.
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