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How to Be Drawn

How to Be Drawn

Hayes, Terrance

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

Art Criticism & TheoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0143126881
ISBN13: 9780143126881
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 31 2015
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award
A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

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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