PROFILE
FROM Terrance Hayes
"How to Be Drawn" Terrance Hayes' newest collection of poetry is a vivid examination of how we see and how we are seen. How to Be Drawn is his fifth collection of poetry. In it, Hayes sketches stories of trying on new selves. He constructs logic puzzles for which there are no answers. He invokes the sacred names of Norman Mailer, James Brown and … Ol' Dirty Bastard. Madeleine speaks with Hayes about his latest work.
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