How to be drawn
By: Terrance Hayes
Series: Penguin poets; Penguin poets
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780143126881
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry; African American authors
Description: 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. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes's award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed, How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.