Hip Logic

The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead , winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin , coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic , is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to capture the nuances of contemporary male African American identity and confirms Hayes's reputation as one of the most compelling new voices in American poetry. At the First Clear Word -- emcee -- Touch -- The things-no-one-knows blues -- Ars poetica #789 -- Hip logic -- Sonnet -- Mr. T- --Shaft the enchanted shoe factory or -- Ars poetica: The epic quest for language -- Squawk -- Butter -- Origin of the days -- Gospel of the two sisters / A Gram of s -- abductor -- although -- ambulance -- apothecary -- beckoned -- bowling -- breathe -- careless -- corporal -- example / Conjure -- Friday poem -- For Paul Robeson -- Diego Rivera-Dama De Blanco, 1939 -- for Robert Hayden -- Broken dangerfield newby villanelle -- William H. Johnson -- Ode to Balthus -- "The Gulf Stream" / Four studies -- Sleeping woman -- Still music / A Gram of s -- gander -- general -- masculine -- nuclear -- overseas -- preface -- repaid -- saintly -- segregate -- stupor -- toenails / The law of falling cathing up -- Fire -- Gun/Woman/Son -- Heartthrob -- Mother to son -- Blues procession -- Florida -- The flame -- Ode to stone -- Alter call -- Autum -- The same city