Hip Logic

<b>The second collection of poetry from the author of <i>Lighthead</i> winner of the 2010 National Book Award <p/>Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes <i>American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin</i> coming in June of 2018 <p/> </b>Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work <i>Hip Logic</i> 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. <i>Hip Logic</i> 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.