Description
In this inventive fifth collection, poems become portraits, maps, graphs, and acts of summoning—ways of examining how we see, remember, and represent the world. Drawing on African American history and contemporary experience, as well as writers and artists across the American and international traditions, the collection explores visibility, identity, mortality, and the fragile boundary between appearance and reality. With musical precision, visual imagination, and the improvisational energy of jazz, the poems continually reshape familiar forms and challenge passive ways of looking. The result is a dazzling meditation on perception and the power of language to make what is hidden newly present.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 2015
99 pages
ISBN: 9780143126881
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes.