I remember. Around the big field. Famous Terrance Hayes quotes. let the troubled world inside. By moonlight, We chased each other. That’s what he thinks. 1. Please try again later. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. He teaches at the… More about Terrance Hayes Someone tell him his mother was not, a coward. the holes of her eyes, the white fuzz on her tongue. Outside Pataskala I saw the deer with a soft white belly, the deer with two eyes as blind as holes, I saw it leap. cries. Thus, one poem contemplates theprinciple of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. and durable enough to deconstruct a deer when it leaps, I’m telling you, like someone being chased. from a bush beside the highway as if a moment before. .Hayes writes far-reaching yet intimate monologues that are simultaneously subtle and hard-hitting. Support USA. for the deer, it is not shame because the deer is not human, it is only almost human when it looks on the road, and leaps covering at least thirty feet in a blink, the deer, I cannot be, the dumb deer, dumb and foolish enough, to ignore anything that runs but is not alive, a trafficking, machine filled with a distracted mind and body deadly. All donations are tax-deductible. Hayes and his poems are brilliant, which is to say, bedazzling but also filled with illuminating light that shows us things we hadn’t seen before.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. .He is a poet of swallowed garrulity, imagined riposte, mock correction, and interior litigation. United States Artists. .Expansive, original, resounding.”—ALA Booklist   “Reading Terrance Hayes’ thick, gorgeous, knowing, endlessly surprising poems is like spending a long evening with your most soulful and garrulous friend, one you haven’t seen in ages. . So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. . At some point, your heart will break and you will cry. Tell him it was because, he and his little brother were in the car, she would not. Lighthead, 2011; photo courtesy Penguin Group; cover art by Terrance Hayes. The mind separated from the body. deer, I could become a machine with a woman inside it, moving at a speed that leaves a stain on the breeze. You will cover the waterfront. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333), Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow, Discover Book Picks from the CEO of Penguin Random House US. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We believe in artists and their essential role in our society. In 2014 he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. the raised buds soft as a bed of pink seeds, the hole of a mouth stretched wide enough to hold, a whole baby inside, I could almost see its eyes. . . The Art Divas / Divas of Verse Blog of Rabih Alameddine. . We made our own laws. [his] poems are like a Pixar version of the mental marionette show, a dazzling space crammed with comic jabs.”—Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker                                                                           “Music serves as both an animating force and resonant presence in Hayes’s poems. Yesterday Down at the Canal by Frank O'Hara, Ghazal, After Ferguson by Yusef Komunyakaa, I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror by Agha Shahid Ali, Conversation with a Stone by Wisława Szymborska, Old Woman’s Lament in Autumn by Rae Armantrout, Eleven Addresses to the Lord by John Berryman. | ISBN 9780143126881 It was no one’s fault. at the back of her throat, I could definitely hear its Books Sure to Be on Everyone’s Holiday List, Read the Book Behind the Showtime Limited Series, Ina Garten's Latest Cozy and Delicious Recipes, Audiobooks Read By Your Favorite Celebrities, Chilling Audiobooks for a Haunting Halloween.

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