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Title	:	Wind in a Box
Author	:	Terrance Hayes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	March 28th 2006 by Penguin Books
Categories	:	Poetry. Cultural. African American. Contemporary. The United States Of America

Wind in a Box

Terrance Hayes

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 734 Users | 65 Reviews

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The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award

Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.

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Original Title:	Wind in a Box (Poets, Penguin)
ISBN:	0143036866 (ISBN13: 9780143036869)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Poetry (2007)

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more fantastic poems from terrance hayes, he is definitely one of the best and one of my fav active poets, he is extremely imaginative, lyrical, insightful, powerful, funny, hard-hitting and touching this collection has some great lines and a few stellar poems in it, but every poem flows and is enjoyable and attention-getting and is done with a level of insightfullness that produces thoughfulness and smiles and shock and sadness check his stuff out

only read one poemand it was the best.The Blue Terrance

WHOA.What a talent. So much invention and so much control. He can do almost anything, and does. Even when the book is at its slowest--some of the "Blue" series, maybe--there are always a couple of lines that knock you out. WHOA.

I love the combination of high brow and pop culture in Terrance Hayes' poems. He seems to me like the quintessential intelligent young black man, querying every aspect of the society around him, casting his sharp eye on events and films, his sharp ear on music and talk, with both poignancy and humor. Good stuff.

Terrance Hayes collects words. He scrambles and sings them into a conglomeration of questions, prayers, answers, popular culture, growing up, history, news, and every kind of music. He colors it all with the dark skin he can never forget. Like wind in a box, he is trying to catch what can never be held or seen. He is holding the nothing that is everything up to a mirror.The universe is there, sparkling in its smallest forgotten details, each one a reflection of ourselves, and how we might be

"Moreover, these days there is so much competitionand among very good writers. At the same time, the poetry world has always been somewhat insular, with established writers helping younger ones break into publishing. Poets continue to need support from the literary community and also must make themselves known within itwhether small-scale or large. For better or for worse, writers today who network increase their chances for publication. Of course, many talented writers (and editors) rightly

Well...I didn't love it. It wasn't nearly as clever as it tried to be. Pretty much the only poem I really liked was "Talk." It starts like this:Talklike a nigger now, my white friend,M, saidafter my M.L.K. and Ronald Reagan impersonations,the two of us alond and shirtless in the locker room,It is a long poem so I'm not going to copy all of it here, but it is a good one. The only one that wowed me.