A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 03/31/2015
ISBN: 9780143126881
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015
Booklist 03/15/2015 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 03/31/2015
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 86
New Yorker (The) 05/11/2015 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/02/2015 pg. 32