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How to be drawn

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A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn 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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Penguin USA
0143126881 / 9780143126881
Paperback / softback
811.54
31/03/2015
United States
English
112 pages
23 cm