- Poetry, American poetry, African American authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
In 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.
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Character-led, contemporary, spare and contemplative.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Terrance Hayes
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 99
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143126881
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