How to Be Drawn

by Terrance Hayes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143126881
• ISBN13: 9780143126881
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"