Lighthead
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes, published by Penguin Books in 2010, is an illustrated collection of poetry comprising 95 pages. In this fourth collection, Hayes explores the construction of experience, intertwining the everyday with elements of dream and reality. The poems feature a range of cultural icons, including Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens, while delving into themes of desire and history.
Readers will find a unique blend of storytelling and musicality in Hayes’s work, as he draws inspiration from the Pecha Kucha presentation format. This collection captures the tension between lightness and gravity, presenting a mind that navigates the complexities of time and existence. Lighthead invites readers to engage with its innovative approach to poetry, offering a thought-provoking exploration of the human experience.
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Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry
Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes,American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018
In 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 presenta-tion 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, Lightheadleaves us illuminated and scorched.
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