How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets)

How to Be Drawn (Penguin Poets)

<b>A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award<br><br>A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of <i>Lighthead</i></b><br><br>In <i>How to Be Drawn</i>, 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<br>principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes’s award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed,<i> How to Be Drawn</i> is a mesmerizing achievement.