{"product_id":"hayes-terrance-lightheadpb","title":"Hayes, Terrance: Lighthead","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 30, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in June of 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e leaves us illuminated and scorched.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817118543895,"sku":"9780143116967","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71RJkzhzntL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767828576","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/hayes-terrance-lightheadpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}