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Terrance Hayes · 2010 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Formally playful poems on Black masculinity, Pennsylvania childhood and fatherhood make room for sonnets and for the poet's invented pecha kucha form. The speaker stays alert to both humour and threat. A lyric collection that won the National Book Award.

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