Wind in a Box

by Hayes, Terrance

• ISBN13: 9780143036869
• ISBN10: 0143036866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

"In Wind in a Box, his third collection, poet Terrance Hayes broadens his explorations of how influence and tradition can be simultaneously upended and embraced. Through personal poems (in voices ranging from Jorge Luis Borges to Amiri Baraka to Dr. Seuss), prose poems, list poems, and lyric narratives, Wind in a Box examines change within order, freedom from containment. These poems look at how identity is both shaped and shrouded by culture: how the imagination is both enlarged and restricted by form."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina. Muscular Music was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Hip Logic was a winner of the National Poetry Series. A recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, Hayes teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Wind in a Box	1	(2)
Woofer (When I Consider the African-American)	3	(2)
Talk	5	(2)
Black History	7	(2)
Root	9	(3)
I. MJ Fan Letter	12	(2)
II. A Few Rumors Concerning Mr. Potato Head	14	(1)
III. Omnipop, 1982	15	(1)
IV. RSVP	16	(3)
The Blue Baraka	19	(2)
The Blue Borges	21	(2)
The Blue Bowie	23	(2)
The Blue Etheridge	25	(2)
Harryette Mullen Lecture on the American Dream	27	(1)
Oracle	28	(1)
Mausoleum	29	(1)
It's a Small World	30	(2)
Upright Bluest	32	(1)
I. New Orleans Piano Genius	32	(1)
II. Gonzo's Blue Dream	33	(1)
III. Papa Was a Rascal	34	(2)
IV. Booker's Tomb	36	(3)
The Blue Kool	39	(2)
The Blue Melvin	41	(2)
The Blue Seuss	43	(2)
The Blue Strom	45	(3)
Pine	48	(2)
A Girl in the Woods	50	(2)
Threshold	52	(2)
The Whale	54	(3)
Variation on a Black Cinema Treasure: Broken Earth	57	(1)
Variation on a Black Cinema Treasure: Boogie Woogie Blues	58	(1)
Tour Daufuskie	59	(2)
A Postcard from Okemah	61	(4)
The Blue Terrance	65	(2)
The Blue Terrance	67	(2)
The Blue Terrance	69	(2)
A Small Novel	71	(3)
Wind in a Box	74	(2)
Wind in a Box	76	(2)
Wind in a Box	78	(2)
Wind in a Box	80	(3)
Imaginary Poems for the Oldfashioned Future	83	(2)
Everybody Goes to Heaven	85	(1)
It Can't Be Good Sitting Around Imagining Your Death	86	(2)
The Heritage Channels	88	(5)
Wind in a Box	93	(2)
Notes	95