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Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and attended elementary school in Normal, Illinois. [1] After receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1975, [2] he entered a career in composing and arranging music. [3] Hayes moved to Kansas City in the late 1970s. [1]
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World is a 2014 non-fiction book by the British materials scientist Mark Miodownik. The book explores many of the common materials people encounter during their daily lives and seeks to explain the science behind them in an accessible manner. Miodownik devotes a chapter ...
The book's title comes from a poem by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The caged bird, a symbol for the chained slave, is an image Angelou uses throughout all her writings. [26] The title of the book comes from the third stanza of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy": [note 1]
An example of a tissue guard. A tissue guard is a tipped-in page consisting of a sheet of thin, often semi-transparent paper that is inserted facing an illustration or plate image, primarily to prevent its ink from transferring onto the opposite page. [2] [3] [4] It is usually added after the book is bound.
Hayes's first book of poetry, Muscular Music (1999), won both a Whiting Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. [6] His second collection, Hip Logic (2002), won the National Poetry Series, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. [7]
Front cover, designed by Alan Spain, of the original UK paperback edition of the anthology The Mersey Sound.. The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems by Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri first published in 1967, when it launched the poets into "considerable acclaim and critical fame". [1]
The conclusion of the book — a love story between art gallery owner Soléne Marchand and a famous (and much younger) boy bander named Hayes Campbell — leaves its two leads in a much different ...
How to Be Drawn is a poetry collection by Terrance Hayes. The poems take on themes of racial individuality, social prejudices, and personal losses in everyday life. The main focus of the poems are self care for an individual's image or personal hardships. The collection was a finalist for several awards.