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How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets)
How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets)
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DATE PUBLISHED: March 31, 2015
PAGE COUNT: 112
CONDITION: New
CATEGORIES:
Social Science,Cultural & Ethnic Studies,American,African American & Black Studies,Art,Criticism & Theory
GENRE:
Poetry,
Society & culture,
Arts
COVER TYPE:
Paperback,
Paperback Original Cover
DIMENSIONS (in.):
8.97 x
6.03 x
0.31
AUDIENCE:
Adults
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Adults
SKU:9780143126881
LANGUAGE: eng-english
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.
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.
