Description: A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award-winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
Review Quotes: "Hayes is a poet of swallowed garrulity, imagined riposte, mock correction, and interior litigation. We all have, in our heads, a marionette theatre where we stage what we might have done and should have said. There we are always the conquering puppet. Hayes's poems are like a Pixar version of the mental marionette show, a dazzling space crammed with comic jabs."--Dan Chiasson, New Yorker
"Even as these deft poems pass by, they ring. Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air. Hayes makes us alive to shimmer to doubleness, to vibration. He draws us in deeper to get crafted in his music, even as we fall further into it."--Tess Taylor, NPR Book Review
"If asked whose formal innovations have most influenced a current generation of younger poets, the first name out of my mouth would be Terrance Hayes."--Kenyon Review