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Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award for PoetryA dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of LightheadIn 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 theprinciple 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.
About the Author
Terrance Hayes (terrancehayes.com) was born in South Carolina in 1971. His most recent book is How to Be Drawn (Penguin 2015) . Lighthead, his fourth poetry collection, won the 2010 National Book Award. His third collection, Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006) , was named one of the best 100 books of 2006 by Publishers Weekly. His other books of poetry are Muscular Music (1999) , which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Hip Logic (2002) , which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, seven Best American Poetry selections, a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. He is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
