How to Be Drawn is a poetry collection by Terrance Hayes. The poems take on themes of racial individuality, social prejudices, and personal losses in everyday life. The main focus of the poems are self care for an individual's image or personal hardships. The collection was a finalist for several awards. It was first published in 2015 by the Penguin Group.[1]
The major themes that coincide in this collection are those of racial and social injustices. Other themes throughout this work are violence, family troubles, and everyday personal loss. Hayes surveys, throughout this collection, how people see and how people are seen by others. The collection draws inspiration from other works of art, from novels to music to games. In "How to Be Drawn to Trouble", the poem features lyrics from James Brown to explore the pressures of matrimonial and familial hungers. In the poem "How to Draw an Invisible Man", Hayes analyzes what it means to be invisible but also visible in America.[2] Trevor Ketner, writing in The Rumpus, said that it "echoes the cultural critique of race relations in America" he found in Ralph Ellison's work Invisible Man.[3]
The poems are written in free verse, meaning there is no set rhyme scheme, stanza form, or metrical structure. The diction used throughout the collection is conversational and Hayes uses word play to convey the message that he has for each of his poems, instead of drawing away using rhythm or rhyme.[4] Poet Tess Taylor noted that "his writing is full of puns and fake outs, leads and dodges, all encased in muscular music."[5]
Poemsedit
I. Troubled Bodiesedit
What It Look Like
The Deer
How to Be Drawn to Trouble
New York Poem
As Traffic
Wigphrastic
My Life as a Hammer
Gentle Measures
A Concept of Survival
Who Are the Tribes
II. Invisible Soulsedit
Black Confederate Ghost Story
How to Draw an Invisible Man
Barberism
The Carpenter Ant
American Sonnet for Wanda C.
Like Mercy
A Machine
Portrait of Etheridge Knight in the Style of a Crime Report: Part I
Portrait of Etheridge Knight in the Style of a Crime Report: Part II
Portrait of Etheridge Knight in the Style of a Crime Report: Part III
^Trevor Ketner. "How To Be Drawn By Terrance Hayes". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
^"How To Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes". fjordsreview.com. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
^"Book Review: 'How To Be Drawn,' Terrance Hayes". NPR.
^Hayes, Terrance (2015-03-31). How to Be Drawn. Penguin. ISBN9780698183193.
^Hayes, Terrance (2001-01-30). "Terrance Hayes - Poet". poets.org. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
January 01, 1970
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