How to Be Drawn

Terrance Hayes

Contents (36)

ALSO BY TERRANCE HAYES

Lighthead

Wind in a Box

Hip Logic

Muscular Music

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Hayes, Terrance.

[Poems. Selections]

How to be drawn / Terrance Hayes.

pages ; cm.—(Penguin poets)

ISBN 978-0-698-18319-3

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PS3558.A8378A6 2015

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Cover design: Alison Forner

Cover art: Terrance Hayes

Cover hand lettering: Jaya Miceli

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for the ones like us

Also by Terrance Hayes

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

I. TROUBLED BODIES

What It Look Like

The Deer

How to Be Drawn to Trouble

New York Poem

As Traffic

Wigphrastic

My Life as a Hummer

Gentle Measures

A Concept of Survival

Who Are the Tribes

II. INVISIBLE SOULS

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

Elegy with Zombies for Life

Instructions for a Séance with Vladimirs

III. A CIRCLING MIND

The Rose Has Teeth

Antebellum House Party

Reconstructed Reconstruction

We Should Make a Documentary About Spades

For Crying Out Loud

Model Prison Model

Some Maps to Indicate Pittsburgh

New Jersey Poem

Self-Portrait as the Mind of a Camera

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Ars Poetica for the Ones Like Us

Notes

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My sincere thanks to the editors and staff of the following publications for first acknowledging the poems (and previous versions of the poems) in this manuscript.

The American Reader, American Studies, The Baffler, CHORUS—A Literary Mixtape, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Gwarlingo.com, heartjournal online.com, huffingtonpost.org, Huizache, jubilat, Los Angeles Review, Manor House Quarterly, The New Yorker, New York Times T Magazine, The Normal School, Poet Lore, Poetry Magazine, poets.org Poem-A-Day, A Public Space, Rattle, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, storyscapejournal.com, tate.org.uk: Tate Etc. Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, Terminus, and Vinyl.

“New Jersey Poem” also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013, edited by Denise Duhamel and David Lehman. “The Rose Has Teeth” also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, edited by Mark Doty and David Lehman. “Model Prison Model” also appeared in 2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses.

How to Be Drawn

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