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Arbor for Butch by Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes reads Arbor for Butch from his National Book Award winning collection, Lighthead.

“Nowhere else does the sky do what the sky does there / where the graves are filled with dirt the color of fire.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem “Arbor for Butch,” which appears in his National Book Award–winning collection, Lighthead (Penguin Books), for this 2010 reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

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Terrance Hayes
Lighthead
Penguin Books
National Book Award
92NY
2010

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