Spotlight Express: Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes

I put a poetry book entitled "Hip Logic" in my Amazon queue it seems like years ago. It's a work by Terrance Hayes. I was interested in getting it a couple years ago when I went on a determined quest to buy as many poetry collections as I could by contemporary African American authors.

Hayes, who is a creative writing professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, published Hip Logic in 2002 after it was selected by Cornelius Eady for the National Poetry Series (The National Poetry series solicits manuscripts for publication).

The book is described as musical, and as a contemplation of black male identity. It's seen as a work of remarkable originality and mastership of language.

As for Hayes, himself, you can see him reading in this video:




Sources: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82155

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