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Muscular Music

Terrance Hayes

Originally published by Tia Chucha Press in 1999, Muscular Music, the debut collection of Terrance Hayes, won a Whiting Writers award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and received favorable reviews in the Washington Post Book World, Black Issues Book Review, The Poetry Book Club Review, and in several literary journals. Hayes' second book, Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), was a National Poetry Series Open Competition Winner, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. His third book, Wind in a Box, was published by Penguin in 2006.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2005
  • Pages: 80
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.28in - 5.50in - 0.22in - 0.29lb
  • EAN: 9780887484384
  • Categories: American - African American & Black

About the Author

TERRANCE HAYES is the recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Hayes currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University.