It's like he's made these sonnets to try to contain something uncontainable. I didnt really know any college graduates other than my teachers. He attended Coker College on a basketball scholarship, but explored painting and poetry and, encouraged by an English professor there and the poet Toi Derricotte, went to the University of Pittsburgh for an MFA in Creative Writing. Thats the Stephen King end of things. That might be true, but I think for the last ten or fifteen years, Ashbery wrote the same book. Maybe theyll like caviar, maybe youll like octopus. I knew that was my only course of action, Jackson said. He envies poets who have the luxury of wandering into all corners of American life. I want to be writing about something; I want to have a subject like novels can, capturing a whole world. I thought, maybe Ill teach, and if I didnt teach, maybe Ill go work in the prison. The editors discuss two poems by Terrance Hayes called "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" from the September 2017 issue of Poetry. Hayess direct inspiration is the L.A. poet Wanda Coleman, who died in 2013 and who coined the term American sonnet. Coleman adapted the sonnet to the jazz methods of, as she put it, progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc. Hayess style is warier than Colemans. 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. A security guard fetches the tear- Now, Rosenblum has the power to change Hayes life again. 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. Some of my undergraduate students dont know that there is another way of learning. I think theres a good book-length poem in here. But I still couldnt do it. All rights reserved. TH: Most workshops are set up around strategy, but theyre not set up around failure. [9], In praising Hayes's work, Cornelius Eady has said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. I mean, I can't actually remember another book that does this, where every single poem has the same title for an entire collection. And SHAPIRO: We should tell people that Terrance Hayes is a black poet, and blackness - and maleness comes up a lot in these poems. How did you get here? Since this means there will be no classes for the rest So whats useful about the Allen Grossman line is to say, what is the puzzle about? I was just doing a Q and A and bouncing between The Simpsons and Picasso. What do you think is a flaw of your poetry? Terrance Hayes Reads American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin. Those arent academic poems. Terrence Hayes was 19 when he shot a man in the leg in 2004. In the most general sense, my deepest ambitions are for the poem as a puzzle, as an object, as a Rubiks cube to play with. In 2020, the song cycle was made into a film by Opera Philadelphia and released on their digital channel. What does it mean to say only certain people? Above all, hes waiting on Rosenblum. Its been less than two months since Jackson came home, but hes not wasting any time. How you get fairly boring poems about race is because you are trying to plug into some notion about identity, as opposed to some notion of personality. People from the outside sometimes look at me and look at how things are going, and they say, You were very strategic. I also was in track and field. Im someone who wants to experiment and play and see what happens, because itll be new no matter what it is, which is probably why I cant write a novel. So in the last year or two, I did take pictures of the paintings going through these various stages. I was excited for folks, but I understood there was gonna be people like me who would ask for relief and have to fight to get it, Hayes said. You've got the soundtrack. He is currently distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and also distinguished visiting writer at New York University. 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. Sometimes it seems like the New York School, but at other times, its very different. To fuck up some commas is an interesting idea. [8], Hayes's poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fence, The Kenyon Review, Jubilat, Harvard Review, West Branch, Poetry, and The Adroit Journal. Im not asking to get rid of Bach and Beethoven and only to listen to this knucklehead from Atlanta. But now theres digital or social media, which people like my daughter are very aware of. How can I be a better teacher? As a poet, you know your limitations, and those limitations are the form of the person or the poet. The poem breaks down the various oppositionsblack and white, men and womenthat Mr. 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. Probably all my encounters. TH: I feel limited as a painter. And I think that that - this relentless title comes back to the relentlessness of, you know, the American racism that we live with. For decades, Oregon and Louisiana were the only states that allowed felony convictions by split jury votes. I like the poem where you play off the line Thank you for your service.. Im a student of poetry, and I feel like everythings on the table, and I can use it all. What's going on here? Its all these other things and the more, the better. How do you see that affecting creative writing programs? The challenge for me in grad school was other peoples timelines. According to the sociology, boomers are more fixed in their positions and more polemical, whereas Generation X is more polyglot and less oppositional: they tend toward what one sociologist calls the cultural omnivore and dont have as strict distinctions among kinds of art. In her statement announcing she had filed a brief in the Ramos case, she cited the practical consequences that could result from overturning cases. Hes signing up for online courses in communications and marketing to help with a foundation co-founded by his wife, a substance abuse and mental health professional. SHAPIRO: And the fact that he refers to my past and future assassin suggests that this is something perpetual in America that won't go away. There are definitely 14 lines per poem, so that's that sonnet form that you may or may not remember from your 10th grade English class. The Supreme Courts Ramos v. Louisiana ruling allowed the verdict to be tossed out in many nonunanimous jury convictions that were still in the appeals process. Terrance Hayes: I have a line in the last book about how to draw an invisible man, and it says, Im trying to be transparent. I dont actually want to be invisible, which is the dilemma of people of color, but I would like to be transparent, so people can see what my issues are, good and bad. So when my mother saw my earliest poems in the first book, she was like, Oh, it was just your imagination.. Everybody has their own weird thing, and mine is that I like books. But Hayes isnt describing canonical melancholy, the pined-for vision of mortality that poets sometimes indulge in. My sense is that the synthesis is what the university can do. What I hate is a white canvas, and I dont like one layer of paint. When I got in, the joy of college was my teachers. from Coker University and an M.F.A. There are formal and rhetorical puzzles in nearly every one of Hayess poems. 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. And I thought, after Id written it, Well, if I dont go out there and find this dude whos my biological father, Im going to keep writing this poem. So thats a personal thing from my life, and if I didnt answer that life question, I felt like I was going to be stuck in my work. Jackson was still in prison when he heard about the Supreme Court ruling. It was a room of low-residency MFA people in Tampa, and I said, Half of you are going to get what I say about abstract expressionism, cubism, Rothko, and Picasso, and half of you are going to get The Simpsons, Lil Wayne, and Future, this new rapper. Why do I have to separate those out? What I would say to him is that I was just trying to build up a surface. 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. Then I stood them up, and I had a grid of images. JW: You have a significant position nowyou won the National Book Award in 2010, and youve won several other awards, and you got the MacArthur in 2014. So my definition of the academic requires a little outside information. Thats my attitude in the workshop, too. Sometimes it might be confessional, but I do like to make stuff up. Terrance Hayes segregate On the first morning of school there is a young tree- frog waiting patiently at the front gate. But then there are the poems that are just about feelings and about family, and maybe you dont have to have a dictionary or internet next to you. TH: Yeah, a full ride. Anything else connected to that is just gravy. She has an opportunity to do right by it, and she hasnt.. The joke in my classes and in my household is that I am always timing and measuring everything. As a student of poetry, I find that confessionalism is a great tool that fiction writers dont have. Thats manifested in the pecha kucha poems in Lighthead: theyre not measurements of meter; theyre measurements of time. Instead, Rosenblum is choosing to litigate these post-conviction relief cases in civil court until the Oregon Supreme Court delivers a ruling on whether Ramos applies to past cases. Im going to eat it the same. So if someone asked, Are you writing poems about race or Pittsburgh? Id say, No, Im writing poems about poetry.. 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. In your most recent work, in books like How to be Drawn, you have poems like Gentle Measures where youre figuring yourself out and thinking about fatherhood. Where theres an experience, Im thinking: Is this going to be converted to a lyric moment? shelved 32,633 times. People can come and sit around and talk about work. I would do what everyone else does. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Terrance Hayes earned a BA at Coker College and an MFA at the University of Pittsburgh. The poetry was from Hayes' book American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.[11]. So thats my big question: am I the one thats limited and theres a way to do this thing, or is it the genre thats limited? And I think, if I was really trying to fully capture consciousness, I would have to leave poems. 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. whether the poem speaks of #devastation or #hope whether it happens #before or #after 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. Its like your grandfather worked every day at the mill, but you never knew what his favorite color was, or what cruel thing his mother said to him when he was ten years old. But countless defendants in Oregon have been convicted by a nonunanimous jury since the 1934 law was enacted and received their final judgment which means their cases and sentences were final. If were talking about class, the people who could survive as poets before were people who were wealthy already. JW: Is there a tension between form or aesthetic value and identity? When Im at a conference thats full of formalists, they say, Oh, youre a formalist; if Im at an African-American retreat, people say, Yeah, youre an African-American poet. Im interested in form; Im interested in culture. Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. Hayes' 14-line projects react to the poet's own frustration with his fame (which eats up his time with worthy obligations, isolates him, and cannot give him peace), as well as reacting . Its always what I go back to, and everything is filtered through that. Of his son the way one twilight matches another. I say to students that its fine to not know stuff, but you have to research everything. Every poem is a sonnet, and every sonnet is titled: "American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin.". Are there particular ideas that you gravitate toward or that have influenced you? I am interested in whether youll like it or not, but if you say, I like your steak but dont like the beans, all right, eat the steak, and dont eat the beans. You are beautiful because of your sadness, but you would be more beautiful without your fear. American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous"] By Terrance Hayes. The standard bohemian listeners are like the angelheaded hipsters in Allen Ginsbergs Howl. They dream of melodramatic self-destructionjumping/Through windowswhile the culture around them works to extinguish black artistry. 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. [7], In 2018, Hayes premiered Cycles of My Being commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Carnegie Hall with music by Tyshawn Sorey starring Lawrence Brownlee. But students often dont want that; they want a strategy for how to make it in the academy. You can read Toni Morrison and still read Shakespeare. Its gonna be work, its gonna be a hobby, its gonna be something I love., jding@oregonian.com; 503-221-4395; @j_dingdingding. To go back to your point about the later books, in Lighthead, the first poem begins with a line, I could never get the hang of Time, and the epigraph is a Borges quote from A New Refutation of Time. At some point I realized, even more than fatherhood, even more than parents, even more than race, the thing Im really obsessed with is measuring time. Because I was lucky enough to get a scholarship, my parents didnt feel compelled to tell me what to do. TH: Thats an interesting question. Most late nights, the husband, father of two, and full-time professor escapes the "jam of life's traffic" by walking the 14 steps to his third-floor study. JW: I like the essays more than the fiction. Williams in late February moved to have convictions overturned for 22 people convicted of felonies by nonunanimous juries, and he has plans to review hundreds more. Hayes is working to rebuild relationships strained by his decade-long absence. Ive always tried to stay very focused in terms of what I need to write. Nikole Hannah-Jones (Narrator), The New York Times Magazine (Contributor), TH: Yeah, but its not always just my imagination. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature, My grandfather was a war veteran; my dad was in the army; my brother was in the army. Both of those are equally romantic and equally problematic. But I dont think thats always true for other people. JW: And its also the table to come, which you cant quite predict, or you might be totally off if you do. Or in a poem Ill talk about Ol Dirty Bastard and Othello. After Ive done a poem, then I can think about it as a piece of the puzzle and as a part of this whole thing, as opposed to writing one poem at a time, and when I get to twenty poems or forty poems, I have a book. I didnt know a poem could do that. I continually want to make the last poem more interesting. I was in a space where people had read lots, and I felt like I had to go to the library and read everything in it. JW: Like the poem about her pulling a gun on you, Late? TH: Me too, because theres too much affect in the fiction. Thats the procedural crazy in our law that requires a ruling that says, this opinion is retroactive, Kaplan said. You find that out especially as a teacher. Part of my personality, certainly, is because Im black, and Im Southern, and Im male. Then it was three years, and I was done. I would not want to do thatalthough maybe I will when Im eighty. [7] He won the National Book Award for Lighthead[1] (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form). I thought, Maybe Ill look at it in a little while. Thats about failure and practice. TH: Flexibility is what makes a good program. I do think that the phenomena where you have access to all of that information makes you polyglot. JW: And the decision is how big the table is. Reverting to childhood may be an impossibility, but it is the solitary unquestionable way to recuperate unblemished happiness . Im not doing enough as an individual if Im not seeking out new experiences, new people, being challenged, being honest with who I am, or my poems are going to be stuck. The desire to want to feed people is not a bad desire. I dont necessarily think Im entitled to anything or that I can control very much. On the one hand, people must want things from you. The Still in Prison campaign is working to raise public awareness about the impact of Oregons law. TH: One thing that people say is that were creating robots, and students are just writing the same poems. Theres an assumption in contemporary literature that writers represent their identities. Could you be a high school English teacher? Could you run a press? In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. The New York School poets are interesting to me for their immediacy; New York School culture is about being present and being in the moment. TH: Support the Troops! The poet I mentioned who said you have to choose a side, its not like I disagree, its just, why would I rush? Its in Lighthead, and that poem is in conversation with The Same City, about meeting this man who is my father, where he says to me, God made nothing sweeter than pussy. The growth of the poems is very local, and when they become confessional, its because Im trying to become someone better from one day to the next, or come to terms with the ways I cant be better from one day to the next. So Ill risk naivety in the moment. SHAPIRO: Why do you think it's important that he calls these all-American sonnets? Terrance Hayes is probably the most innovative poet addressing the complexities of race in America today. So for someone to say this is your audience and you have to give people the thing theyll really eat, Im saying you dont know what peoples capacity is. 95 / 100 At Pegasus I could just write a poem for the fun of it, but Id spent all this time as a painter, and my art teacher, whos also passed away now, Kim Chalmers, certainly encouraged me. If youve got a restaurant and youre McDonalds, you cant sell sushi, you just make burgers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Copyright 2018 NPR. Menu. How would you characterize your writing? Accuracy and availability may vary. This is not the first time Rosenblum has stood in the way of striking down nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon. 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.. TH: Yesand many other things. I dont think Ashbery thinks that. The prognosis does not seem promising. The last poem in Hip Logic, The Same City, is about my stepdad and about the way I appreciate this man whos raised me. 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. 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. Is it also a little gimmicky (ph)? The following interview appears in the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. "You belong in our swamps not our schools!" Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. When Id go home, all they said was, Why are you still going to school? And I would say, Youre not paying for it. Most of the time, I was going to leave. Assassin, you are a mystery/To me, I say to my reflection sometimes, Hayes writes, acknowledging the part anyone plays in his own existential undoing. I always thought I wasnt that much different from anybody else. 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. I dont know; I hope not. That has helped me deal with the success, because the success still feels very ephemeral or temporary, and it certainly hasnt helped me write poems. Im going to starve if I dont eat it, but if I dont eat it, neither should you. Track teams are so big, they dont usually give them. You say it's really inventive. I had no sense of what kind of avenues might open up. Thats how I work, from one day to the next. from the University of Pittsburgh writing program. Im not sure how to hold my face when I dance, he writes: In an expression of determination or euphoria?. The problem is what to do with them after that, if they cant get a job teaching? Thats great! But I still want to see him be somebody else. TH: Right, Intro to Creative Writing. He calls his mother every morning. Its twenty seconds for each stanza, and Im trying to create out of these twenty-second lyric bursts a narrative that holds together. TAYLOR: Perpetual - yes. 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. I know you paint and have for a long time. than a door being knocked. My attitude is to split the difference. Everybody assumes that the I is a confessional I, and they assume that with me, but I find its a useful device so I can lie to people in plain sight. How did you win this? And I say, I didnt predict any of this. With each book, I think every poem is the last poem, every book is the last book. He was the type of professor whose house youd visit, and all my family had met him before he passed. Youre a synthetic poet. You come from a small town in South Carolina and went to college because you had a basketball scholarship. He attended Coker College on a basketball scholarship, but explored painting and poetry and, encouraged by an English professor there and the poet Toi Derricotte, went to the University of Pittsburgh for an MFA in Creative Writing. So suddenly, it's as if he himself is the assassin. I think thats useful, but on the other hand, its not quite satisfying for me. But then there is that other part of me that walks up the street and watches CNN and hears stories, and it is true that I inhabit this world and want to respond to that. My father would say, Youre going to go to collegeyoure smart. But they didnt have any savings. All my flaws and quirks and neuroses, they fit just as well as the scarring that comes from racism or masculinity, and I dont want to have to cut that off. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Maybe I can, but I need to try that. Poetry is the end for me. In my body of work, thats what Im aiming for, and I never can get it. JW: When you went to Coker College, you went for visual arts. He had been in Vietnam, and I think he worked as one of JFKs speech-writers or something like that, but he had left all of that and had this big horse farm in Camden. Edmunson said if the office chose to do as people are suggesting, it would not be based on the current state of the law either federal or state.. I have to trust my own perception as opposed to waiting for someone to tell you how to fix it, which is what happens in an MFA program. [4] Currently, he teaches at New York University.[5]. So I feel like, if Im going to make a meal, were going to sit down at the table and eat it together. 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. Every time Im flying out of Pittsburgh, I see your picture in the airport, with Pitt advertising, Come study with a genius. How do you feel about your position? Are existential jambalaya. Whats important for me in that book is the joining of it, making this new object. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has the power to allow post-conviction relief cases be sent back to county district attorneys for retrial. Hayess talkative poems are, in fact, a form of thinking, fuelled by opposing impulses and contradictory ideas. And then there are poems that are really - what's the word I want? That poem is also a conversation about whether you have to choose a side. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. I dont think about everybody that looks the same; I dont know who those people are, but Im going to feed them. My deepest ambition is always for the poem, but the growth comes from trying to not get stuck as a human being. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world. There are no doubt different kinds of programs, but what do you think makes a good program, and what makes a bad program? him with a "Get the Hell out of here!" [3] He received a B.A. You can insert anything in that but certainly fluidity in terms of faculty and aesthetics. 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. I was a visual artist, too, so I got offers from Savannah College of Design, but they didnt have any sports, and they didnt give me enough money. 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. Activists point to New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, who opted not to wait for a court ruling on retroactivity. JW: Related to art, theres been a lot of critical writing about postmodernism and different kinds of theories, and you mentioned Benjamin. Some of the resources available to me now allow me to put myself in new situations, but that has never been my ambition. I think about the next poem, because Im always thinking I could do better, and have I done the best I can? From the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. He wants to be more involved with his 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son by volunteering at school or coaching sports, but his felony prohibits it. Photo by Kathy Ryan. Im mostly interested in philosophers that have an interest in languageWittgenstein, even Nietzsche. You've got the music. Some defendants were retried and convicted again, while others had charges dropped or were retried and released. In that box, there were twelve twelve-by-twelve tiles, and once I put some gesso on oneit was smooth, and I could paint on it. Then when I got a fellowship to the University of Pittsburgh, it really seemed cheaper. My legacy is still in an upward arc of poems, so people can say, I didnt know he was going to do that. 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. It allows me to not get too caught up in terms of privacy and secrecy across the poems. Then in Lighthead, theres a lot of fire throughout the book, so Im playing around with the paradox of fire and lighting things up. Issue Date: September 28, 2015. A little bit of reading, talking to some people about art and how art worksthose are things I know work for basic stimulation. If youre just trying to make art, nobody has to buy what you do, and the world doesnt need it, so I try to tell them to relax. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. 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