Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) -- Terrance Hayes, Paperback

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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) -- Terrance Hayes, PaperbackWinner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 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

In Men Have Called Her Crazy

and a curse on the horrible boyfriend

and traverses generations

Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land

endemic poverty

A quick reference for people with the occasional question and an excellent primer for anyone learning the basics

and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past

"Full of laugh-out-loud passages

as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction

Learn and practice addition

I wanted to make her pay for the moans coming from my father's bedroom

and because of that