Wind in a Box

"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.

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.