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Poetry collection · Adult

Lighthead

by Terrance Hayes

Part of the Penguin poets series

95 pages · 2010

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The fourth collection by the author portrays the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. It sets what it means to be "light longing for lightness" against what it means to "burn with all the humanity fire strips away." Hayes navigates melancholy, irreverence, and the sublime.--From publisher description

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