num_pages: 112
description: The third collection of poetry from the author of  Lighthead , winner of the 2010 National Book AwardWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes,  American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin , coming in June of 2018Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music , he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box , Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.
language: English
title: Wind in a Box
titlecomplete: Wind in a Box
genres: The United States Of America, African American, School, Contemporary, Poetry
ratings_count: 818
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Penguin Books