Description
This ambitious collection explores how memory, desire, history, and imagination shape the experience of being human. Moving fluidly between dream and reality, the poems bring cultural figures and everyday moments into vivid conversation, balancing darkness with buoyancy and wonder. Hayes experiments boldly with forms including the sonnet, ghazal, Golden Shovel, and Pecha Kucha, testing the boundaries between story, song, and visual art. Inventive, lyrical, and formally daring, the collection earned the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2010
95 pages
ISBN: 9780143116967
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Lighthead by Terrance Hayes.