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Wind in a Box

Terrance Hayes
Chapters (50)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Epigraph
  6. WIND IN A BOX
  7. WOOFER (WHEN I CONSIDER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN)
  8. TALK
  9. BLACK HISTORY
  10. ROOT
  11. I. MJ FAN LETTER
  12. II. A FEW RUMORS CONCERNING MR. POTATO HEAD
  13. III. OMNIPOP, 1982
  14. IV. RSVP
  15. THE BLUE BARAKA
  16. THE BLUE BORGES
  17. THE BLUE BOWIE
  18. THE BLUE ETHERIDGE
  19. HARRYETTE MULLEN LECTURE ON THE AMERICAN DREAM
  20. ORACLE
  21. MAUSOLEUM
  22. IT’S A SMALL WORLD
  23. I. New Orleans Piano Genius
  24. THE BLUE KOOL
  25. THE BLUE MELVIN
  26. THE BLUE SEUSS
  27. THE BLUE STROM
  28. PINE
  29. A GIRL IN THE WOODS
  30. THRESHOLD
  31. THE WHALE
  32. VARIATION ON A BLACK CINEMA TREASURE: BROKEN EARTH
  33. VARIATION ON A BLACK CINEMA TREASURE: BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES
  34. TOUR DAUFUSKIE
  35. A POSTCARD FROM OKEMAH
  36. THE BLUE TERRANCE
  37. THE BLUE TERRANCE
  38. THE BLUE TERRANCE
  39. A SMALL NOVEL
  40. WIND IN A BOX - —after Lorca
  41. WIND IN A BOX
  42. WIND IN A BOX
  43. WIND IN A BOX
  44. IMAGINARY POEMS FOR THE OLD-FASHIONED FUTURE
  45. EVERYBODY GOES TO HEAVEN
  46. IT CAN’T BE GOOD SITTING AROUND IMAGINING YOUR DEATH
  47. THE HERITAGE CHANNEL
  48. WIND IN A BOX
  49. NOTES
  50. PENGUIN POETS
001

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Title Page

001

Copyright Page

PENGUIN BOOKS
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First published in Penguin Books 2006

Copyright © Terrance Hayes, 2006

Page vii constitutes an extension of this copyright page.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Hayes, Terrance.
Wind in a Box / Terrance Hayes.
p. cm.—(Penguin Poets)

eISBN : 978-0-143-03686-9

1. African Americans—Poetry. I. Title.

PS3558.A8378W56 2006
811’.5—dc22 2005053460

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Dedication

For Yona and Ua;
and for Aaron becoming

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincere thanks to the editors and staff of the following publications for first acknowledging the poems (and previous versions of the poems) in this book:

Antioch Review, Ascent, Bay City Review, Black Renaissance Noir, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners, Caketrain, Callaloo, Crowd, 88, failbetter, Fence, Fugue, The Gingko Tree Review, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, The Indiana Review, The Journal, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, Kestral, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Swink, Third Coast, Tin House, and West Branch.