Lighthead

Name: Lighthead
Author: Terrance Hayes

by Terrance Hayes

Prose poems on music, race, shadow-self, and the burden of darkness

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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.

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