{"product_id":"hip-logic-9780142001394","title":"Hip Logic","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second collection of poetry from the author of \u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2010 National Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e, coming in June of 2018 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, \u003ci\u003eHip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eHip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e Lighthead, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are \u003ci\u003eWind In a Box, Hip Logic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMuscular Music\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. \u003ci\u003eHow To Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409713205522,"sku":"9780142001394","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13b4de59-a77a-4fae-a951-1109bd6af40a.jpg?v=1729292698","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hip-logic-9780142001394","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}