InHow 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 Hayess 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 Hayess award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed,How to Be Drawnis a mesmerizing achievement.

Terrance Hayesis the author ofLighthead,winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books areWind In a Box, Hip Logic, andMuscular 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.

• Publisher:Penguin Books (March 31, 2015)
• Language:English
• Paperback:112 pages
• ISBN-13:9780143126881
• Reading Age:18 years and up
• Item Weight:5 ounces
• Dimensions:0.3 x 5.93 x 9 inches