How to Be Drawn -- Terrance Hayes, Paperback

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.

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

Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.