Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)

Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase.

He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man.

In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss.

Wind in a Box, Hayes’ s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced.