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Lighthead Poems (National Book Award Winner) (Penguin Poets)

Terrance Hayes

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultur...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein said he had been reading this poetry collection, praising its blend of high art and political punch that resonated powerfully with him.

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I've been reading Lighthead by Terence Hayes and his poems kind of spin together high art and formal technical innovation but I think what I really get from them is this kind of political punch that k...

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Ezra Klein said he had been reading this poetry collection, praising its blend of high art and political punch that resonated powerfully with him.

"

I've been reading Lighthead by Terence Hayes and his poems kind of spin together high art and formal technical innovation but I think what I really get from them is this kind of political punch that kicks in and it takes the wind out of me.

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