This thing Im writing is, after all, also called a review. That might be true, but I think for the last ten or fifteen years, Ashbery wrote the same book. When I got in, the joy of college was my teachers. These adversaries, dreamed up in Hayess poems, are also confined there: I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison,/Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame., The conflict between flight and confinement is built into the form he has chosen. A security guard fetches the tear- After missing out on his kids, he wants to make the most of his time with his grandkids. The idea that language in and of itself is a material or communicates sound that is a materialthat interests me. My job in the university is simple: Im a teacher. My father would say, Youre going to go to collegeyoure smart. But they didnt have any savings. Then Toi, it just so happened, was reading in South Carolina around the time I was thinking, Can I really do this? and I went to the reading and met her, and I decided I was going to. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). This grim audit is amusing to figure out: the Z is hidden in disease; the only X I can locate is in the word exist. Hayes nods to Gwendolyn Brookss poem The Mother, about abortion, and invokes Robert Lowell, the Mayflower maniac, whose unrhymed sonnets are a shadow text for this book. The case, Edwards v. Vannoy, argued Dec. 2, centers on Louisiana man Thedrick Edwards, who was convicted by a nonunanimous jury of several counts of armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape. The university seems to be fairly fixed and stable, where James Joyce is more important than Fuck Up Some Commas. But for me, the university is as fluid and as responsive as the culture is. JW: So your obligation is to ask questions? That means if youre reading a poem that has a reference to Ol Dirty Bastard, thats an academic poem, because not everybody will know who he is, and you have to go research. What we can say now is that at least there are more people with opportunities. In this studio class that Ive taken, the teacher had a joke that I should take pictures of my paintings, because he would come over, and I would have a painting of a boy, and he would go away, and then an hour later it would be a painting of a tree, then he would go and come back and it would be a painting of a shoe, and its still the same canvas. I also thought, if it didnt work, I could just go back home and get a job there. Whether they will be able to change that depends on one unanswered question: Does the Supreme Courts decision apply retroactively to past cases? Like, one of these sonnets begins, (reading) a remix of "Pony" by Ginuwine plays while half a dozen beautiful black men strut on stage wearing translucent black housecoats, then pause with their backs to us before a slow twerking as half a dozen beautiful black women walk on stage in sharp alabaster tuxedos and surgical masks. You find that out especially as a teacher. Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. I always thought I wasnt that much different from anybody else. I like a little sea bass, too, or a little halibut. SHAPIRO: The most striking thing about this book when you open it up is that each poem has the same title. I understand that people around me think that my involvement in a new center will be a good thing, but I say, Well, how does a MacArthur make me a better poet?. Its a petition that can be submitted in civil court even after someone has exhausted criminal court options. previous 1 2 next . [7] He won the National Book Award for Lighthead[1] (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form). And SHAPIRO: We should tell people that Terrance Hayes is a black poet, and blackness - and maleness comes up a lot in these poems. The day after . Hes an older, white dude, and he was saying that he had been a victim of molestation, and he said, Once youve seen what real evil can do in the world, you know you dont have the luxury of saying, well, Hitler was a painter too. So I said to him, I actually dont disagree, I just feel like I could be nave for a while and pursue truth, and at the end of that, if I see something thats evil, I will say its evil. Jackson was still in prison when he heard about the Supreme Court ruling. Every time I tried to bring it up with my friends, they were like, Man, what are you talking about? I didnt expect everyone to want to talk to me about it. Hayes finds Whitmans range without his privilege in a mostly alphabetized sonnet full of threats and phobias: All cancers kill me, car crashes, cavemen, chakras,Crackers, discord, dissonance, doves, Elvis,Ghosts, the grim reaper herself, a heart attackWhile making love, hangmen, Hillbillies exist,Lilies, Martha Stewarts, Mayflower maniacs,Money grubbers, Gwen Brooks The Mother,(My mothers bipolar as bacon), pancakes kill me,Phonies, dead roaches, big roaches & smallerRoaches, the sheepish, snakes, all seven seas,Snow avalanches, swansongs, sciatica, KillerWasps, yee-haws, you, now & then, disease. Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. My approach to life and my work is not strategy. Sometimes he uses sonnets to stump the reader: This word can be the difference between knowing/And thinking. My default answer to just about everything in the world is, Man, Im just going to go write a poem. When things get rough, whether its grading student papers or paying the bills or a fight with my wife, my default answer is to write a poem and just forget about all of it. You write a poem, and you think its a failed poem, but maybe its a draft, and you just keep going onto the next poem. Ishion Hutchinson, Post-Postcolonial Poet. I just want to be writing, and I dont care that much if you say you love it or you hate it. Schmidt will also defer to a future ruling on retroactivity, according to spokesperson Brent Weisberg. I dont know; I hope not. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. So for basketball scholarships, it was going to be D-II or D-III, and I thought that was the only way I was going to go to school. There was black male reviewBy suits in the offices, the courts & waiting rooms.There was black male review in the weight roomsWhere coaches licked their whistles. Every poem is a sonnet, and every sonnet is titled: "American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin.". Trump is a palpable undercurrent throughout the book, and occasionally Hayes addresses the President directly, calling him Mr. It frees me up to tell the truth. So I just accepted that. On the other hand, its romantic to assume that youre going to be poor. Thats great! But I still want to see him be somebody else. Sometimes it seems like the New York School, but at other times, its very different. Since then, he's won a huge number of literary prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Who those people are, I dont really think too much about that. Growing up working class and not having anyone who had ever have gone to college, I didnt have an extreme pressure. How did you get here? Hayes was surprised at the Ramos ruling, having had little faith in the countrys criminal justice system. I didnt write a lot of poems as an undergrad, but I was always working on them. You kill me can be a compliment. I was just doing a Q and A and bouncing between The Simpsons and Picasso. JW: What was it like when you were in grad school? When you look at all of the MFA programs, very few offer alternatives other than looking for an academic job, but I say to folks all the time, It is not your only option.. of the ball and chain around . I had no sense of what kind of avenues might open up. JW: Related to art, theres been a lot of critical writing about postmodernism and different kinds of theories, and you mentioned Benjamin. Its not necessarily thesis and antithesis, but several things that you might bring together. I think about the next poem, because Im always thinking I could do better, and have I done the best I can? Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. On the one hand, it seems like your career was accidental. I like the poem where you play off the line Thank you for your service.. But hes not idling either. TH: Right, Intro to Creative Writing. JW: Youve had plenty of critics comment on your work, but if you said there was a quality that it has, what would it be? It might take years before the Oregon State Supreme Court takes on a case that has made its way through the often lengthy appeals process so it can issue a judgment on the retroactive application of Ramos. Im interested in Shakespeare, but especially how Shakespeare is in conversation with Scooby-Doo or The Walking Dead. I used to do it, but it was taking up too many of my words.) There never was a black male hysteria, a poem about Emmett Till begins, because a fret of white men drove you crazy/Or a clutch of goons drove you through Money,/Stole your money, paid you money, stole it again. In Money, Mississippi, where Till was lynched, Hayes finds in miniature the economic formula that has been scaled up successfully across America: black men are paid with money stolen from their ancestors, only to have it again taken away from them. Since this means there will be no classes for the rest of the day, the children dump their school gear in their lockers & hustle to the windows to stare. His own attempt to cook for the first time again hes embarrassed to say resulted in a burnt grilled cheese sandwich. Do you see paintings as a puzzle? His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. . In the Ramos case, three dissenting justices were concerned that states could face a potential tsunami of litigation if all active cases with nonunanimous jury convictions were invalidated. JW: Like the poem about her pulling a gun on you, Late? TH: Me too, because theres too much affect in the fiction. Are existential jambalaya. Then in Lighthead, theres a lot of fire throughout the book, so Im playing around with the paradox of fire and lighting things up. Follow your nose , he says. It's really inventive, right? This song cycles center on what it means to be a Black man living in America today. I want us to enjoy a meal together, and I cant say its only for me, even though there is a part of meand this is what I like about Ashberythat says, if you dont like it, thats your problem. He came home to his wife of three years, Lynn James-Jackson, and his first home-cooked meal of smoked salmon, steamed broccoli and baby shrimp. On the other hand, it has to be gratifying. If I dont do something about this, then they still have to deal with all the stigmas that come with a father with a violent history, he said. Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. sort by. How does that bear on your poetry? So whats useful about the Allen Grossman line is to say, what is the puzzle about? Why do we have to read Shakespeare? I know because an article came back to me that said, You should read Shakespeare and Terrance Hayes. I agree with that, and I dont see why it cant be both. That doesnt mean automatic release. SHAPIRO: It seems like some of these poems are really grounded in American life today. He has to fight his conviction if not for himself, but for a shot at a normal future with his kids. Whats going to be left out? He calls his mother every morning. Its always what I go back to, and everything is filtered through that. If youve got a restaurant and youre McDonalds, you cant sell sushi, you just make burgers. Dont you want to see me eat it too? But if I dont know that, then the poem will also be about that; it will be about not knowing. Thats a better way of being an artist to me; thats a more interesting artist who doesnt know and is pursuing an answer versus an artist who does know. But students often dont want that; they want a strategy for how to make it in the academy. I say to students that its fine to not know stuff, but you have to research everything. Certainly, after enough books and enough acknowledgments, are you still comfortable with failing? Those arent academic poems. [1] Even if you cant see underneath all of it, I know that theres a face of a boy and that Ive built it up. The following interview appears in the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. (Reading) A barn shootout endangering the farm life - I live a life that burns a hole through life that leaves a scar for life that makes me weep for another life. My point about the academic is not about high or low, its just that theres outside information. This figure of something violent keeps moving around this collection, and it doesn't stick to any one thing. Theres some moments in David Foster Wallaces nonfiction, like Consider the Lobster, that do it. I think theres a good book-length poem in here. But I still couldnt do it. In her statement announcing she had filed a brief in the Ramos case, she cited the practical consequences that could result from overturning cases. (Nonfiction writers maybe do, but they are a prisoner to it.) The order of those things shifts depending on where I am that day: some days, Im a male poet first, and thats whats really going to inform the work; a lot of days, Im a black poet first and thats whats going to inform it. Maybe I can, but I need to try that. Im not that interested in anything other than making something, playing with something, and it doesnt have to be anything other than poetry. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor about Terrance Hayes' new collection American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. Its the name people of color call/Themselves on weekends & the name colorful/People call their enemies & friends. Or, in the manner of a personals ad, to invite her closer: A brother versed in spiritual calisthenics/And cowboy quiet seeks funny, lonesome,/Speculative or eye-glassed lass. Alongside these gamelike poemsthere is a sonnet about Scrabbleare tributes to Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, an appreciation of James Baldwins face, and the first #MeToo-era elegy Ive ever read, working through the legacy of Derek Walcott. Youre not as fixed in one position. The former Presidents political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans. Id rather take a year to figure it out than have you tell me in five minutes whats wrong with it. I thought, Wow, a poem a week? Even now, I really dont show people stuff when Im working on it. I think he could just sit down, listen to some music every day, and feel like he could make an interesting poem. Im not saying its confessional, but it gives more texture to your work if you can figure out how not to close off those rooms. Then last summer, in 2015, I pulled it out again, and I was like, Okay, Im going to get these pages down to sixty pages. Responding to the person in front of you and their potential and interests, and challenging those potentials and interests, seem to me benchmarks for a program. The names alive are like the names, In graves. After that, he taught in Japan, at Xavier University in Louisiana, and from 2001 to 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University. TH: Flexibility is what makes a good program. I dont necessarily have to commit to one circle, even though I feel people pulling me, Be on my team, be on my team! and Im not sure if I want to be only in your part of the house. Some of the older teachers crowd in the doorway like befuddled geese. I just try to be transparent and very present, and then see what happens. Poetry is the end for me. 2023 Cond Nast. I think I read somewhere that you only took one creative writing course. The defendant can claim a constitutional violation occurred during the trial in this case, Jackson and his attorney would argue Ramos applies to him, which could grant him a retrial. Some of them want that, but they dont know what it looks like or know enough about the template for becoming a successful writer, so they wind up writing really interesting things all the time. It gives me a way to not be limited. To fuck up some commas is an interesting idea. It was with a professor who was the first person to say to me, This is something you could do. He has passed away now, but he was a good friend. I think thats a working-class outlook: if it didnt look like it was for me, if I felt in the workshop the way I felt in the barber shop, I could just go home and work. But if I find a flaw, I feel myself coming up against a statement like that. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. Most black people know thisAbout him. So in the last year or two, I did take pictures of the paintings going through these various stages. From the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. TH: I dont know how negative that is. The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes. TH: Id majored in fine arts, and Id been encouraged as a painter for a long time, since third grade when I started in the art club, so I always thought that was something I could do. Both of those are equally romantic and equally problematic. JW: I like the essays more than the fiction. That would be the Ashbery kind of poetry. Part of my personality, certainly, is because Im black, and Im Southern, and Im male. JW: Do you think its because you had an anomalous path coming into poetry? I dont think the number increases or decreases the potential for finding real brilliance in the pool. His punk-baroque verse is a brilliant protest of abstract authority. Emphasizing the necessity for African American people to adapt to the unfair standards of modern American society, Hayes demonstrates the struggles that vulnerable racial minorities have to suffer in order to gain a semblance of hope in advancing in the social hierarchy. Everybody has their own weird thing, and mine is that I like books. I havent seen that prize. Army Veteran and former VA employee, Terrence Hayes, is the VFW's National Director of Communications. Maybe youll try this? And maybe well generate poems that arent done or finished, but at least weve made something new. "[7], In September 2014, he was honored as one of the 21 2014 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. How can I be a better teacher? I couldnt do Division I, because I would have been a guard, and because Ive been this tall since I was fifteen, Ive always played inside, so I never really learned how to handle the ball. TH: Im interested in identity, but theres another circle thats closer to the self, and thats personality. Issue Date: September 28, 2015. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. There are people that, when someone becomes a celebrity, they just say, Its enough if you write it, and its just something youve written, well take that.. by. I mean, what does he accomplish by doing this? You say it's really inventive. The desire to want to feed people is not a bad desire. TH: What I think the university can do is bridge the things weve been discussing; it can bridge James Joyce and Future. Theyre also about identity, and some of them talk about race explicitly. TH: Maybe a satirical question like in Support the Troops! where Im asking, why should I support them? You can read Toni Morrison and still read Shakespeare. JW: When you went to Coker College, you went for visual arts. All rights reserved (About Us). But when the time came and I looked at studio arts, I couldnt afford it. Im going to eat it the same. And theres a lot of ways to choose a side. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. But I think it is my personality that I can pretty much go into any room where people speak English and navigate around that room in terms of engaging with what theyre doing. But now theres digital or social media, which people like my daughter are very aware of. Which is really lucky. To go back the other way, when Im talking to someone whos sixty-five, and Im making a reference to Future and saying its a song about strip clubs, Im still saying its interesting. Thats my attitude in the workshop, too. In your first book, Muscular Music, you play with popular culture, but theres a stronger sense of self in your last two books. He, Jackson and hundreds like them all convicted by nonunanimous Oregon juries hope to have their cases retried after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Louisiana case last April that such verdicts are unconstitutional. Activists point to New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, who opted not to wait for a court ruling on retroactivity. They must withstand humiliating sexual reviews to participate in the economy at all: There was black male review for ladies nightAt the nightclub. Born in 1971 in Columbia, SC, Hayes's mother was a corrections officer and father a military barber. It can synthesize historical knowledge and research and contextualize those things, because its happening right now. Its unclear how the court will rule. in their lockers & hustle to the windows to stare. It directly asks the high court whether the Ramos case applies retroactively; a ruling is expected by July. SHAPIRO: Tess Taylor sharing Terrance Hayes's new collection called "American Sonnets From My Past And Future Assassin." Its okay if I spent all that time on this manuscript, and it is, by some terms, a failure, but by other terms, its going to lead to something at some point. SHAPIRO: (Laughter) Right. Eliot, so the model for the poet who lives as a poet would primarily be rich white dudes. I hear Jimi HendrixWas also unsure in dance despite being beautifulAnd especially attuned. Jackson is also among those filing for something called post-conviction relief. When Im writing poems, I can get an immediate pleasure but still feel like theres something on the other side of that, which is what I go to novels for, like One Hundred Years of Solitude. In basketball, I was fine. When I stop by McDonalds for a cheeseburger, no one suspects what I am. While no agency or body in the state tracks nonunanimous convictions, a study by Oregons Office of Public Defense Services in 2009 found more than 40% of the 662 convictions it surveyed from 2007 and 2008 were nonunanimous. People confuse privacy and secrecy way too much. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. [2], Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina. JW: College was pivotal for you, and you work in a university. Are there particular ideas that you gravitate toward or that have influenced you? Hayess talkative poems are, in fact, a form of thinking, fuelled by opposing impulses and contradictory ideas. Terrance Hayes. Because I wasnt in a class and didnt have to turn it in at the end of the week and revise it and turn it in again in a portfolio at the end of the semester, I could just work. I could talk to myself in a room and come up with something, but I wouldnt want to only do only that. All rights reserved. So I operate in the long view: whatever prize I get today doesnt guarantee a real legacy. If I see something is wrong, I will say its wrong. Photo by Kathy Ryan. So suddenly, it's as if he himself is the assassin. Thats what I find interesting, and to have that wall stops it. Another one of my English teachers had gone to Pitt in the sixties, and he talked to Toi Derricotte, and she talked to me and told me to apply. . I dont think anybody is just a poet with no adjectives. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt doesnt have the same discretion as Williams. I would not want to do thatalthough maybe I will when Im eighty. So if someone asked, Are you writing poems about race or Pittsburgh? Id say, No, Im writing poems about poetry.. TH: One thing that people say is that were creating robots, and students are just writing the same poems. Convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary by 11-1 and 10-2 jury votes, he was sentenced to 34 years in prison. Another U.S. Supreme Court case, however, could address it sooner. It's like he's made these sonnets to try to contain something uncontainable. - abstract. Thats Wallace Stevens or T.S. Im interested in Language School poetics, too. JW: If I were to periodize your work, Id say there are three phases so far. A week earlier, Murrell had assaulted Haynes at a shopping mall in an . "My Aesthetic Schizophrenia: An Interview with Terrence Hayes", Jonathan Moody, Audio: Terrance Hayes Reading for From the Fishouse, Library of Congress Online Catalog > Terrance Hayes, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terrance_Hayes&oldid=1111538819, Short description is different from Wikidata, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 September 2022, at 14:09. That goes to the question of how much you allow yourself to fail in your day-to-day practice. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family. Im going to starve if I dont eat it, but if I dont eat it, neither should you. TH: Most workshops are set up around strategy, but theyre not set up around failure. 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