Terrance Hayes
American poet whose Lighthead won the National Book Award in 2010. His formally inventive, culturally alert verse explores race, pop culture, and masculinity.
Works
- Muscular MusicDebut exploring language, music, masculinity, and poetic form
- Hip LogicCollection of hip-hop influenced poems about race, desire, and contemporary life
- Wind in a BoxPoems exploring flight, transcendence, and the mysteries of consciousness
- LightheadProse poems on music, race, shadow-self, and the burden of darkness
- How to Be DrawnPoetry collection exploring identity and self-representation through personal and cultural narratives