Thats how I work, from one day to the next. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. I just want to be writing, and I dont care that much if you say you love it or you hate it. [2], Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina. My job in the university is simple: Im a teacher. 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. Or Toni Morrison. But I dont want to be tied to one adjective. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Terrance Hayes earned a BA at Coker College and an MFA at the University of Pittsburgh. Activists want Rosenblum to act now, otherwise an answer could be months away. I dont think Ashbery thinks that. It was sort of like Walter Benjamins Arcades Project, but it wasnt working and it wasnt good, so I stopped and finished How to be Drawn. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. After that, he taught in Japan, at Xavier University in Louisiana, and from 2001 to 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University. I dont think about everybody that looks the same; I dont know who those people are, but Im going to feed them. Hayes shares what he's learned about the VFW since starting his new position. Terrance Hayes is a poet who reflects on race, gender, and family in works marked by formal dexterity and a reverence for history and the artistry of crafting verse. TH: One thing that people say is that were creating robots, and students are just writing the same poems. The desire to want to feed people is not a bad desire. Because I was lucky enough to get a scholarship, my parents didnt feel compelled to tell me what to do. These cases returned to the county level, where district attorneys could decide whether to retry or take some other action. Terrance Hayes is one of the most celebrated poets of his generation. The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes. Menu. TAYLOR: The sonnets themselves have all of these different contents within them, but he's basically pointing to the force of American racial violence and sort of how repetitive it is. He now has a new book out called "American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin," and here to talk with us about it is our reviewer Tess Taylor. 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. Is it also a little gimmicky (ph)? Tacuma Jackson was 26 when he was involved in a tavern heist in 2000. On the one hand, people must want things from you. Sometimes they seem eclecticwith references from pop culture to high artbut your motivation is toward synthesis. 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. His punk-baroque verse is a brilliant protest of abstract authority. How would you characterize your writing? from the University of Pittsburgh writing program. Hayes said hes fortunate to have been able to get his electricians license in prison, an opportunity afforded to only a handful of people, and he found a job in July. Trump is a palpable undercurrent throughout the book, and occasionally Hayes addresses the President directly, calling him Mr. The prognosis does not seem promising. 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. The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager Poetry is the end for me. All rights reserved. The poet also received a MacArthur fellowship in 2014 as. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic, Penguin Books, 2002. In seventy sonnets written after Trump's election, Hayes manages boundless anxiety with formal innovation. Now, Rosenblum has the power to change Hayes life again. For the known cases though, Rosenblum can ask the court to reverse the convictions and send them back to county district attorneys for retrial. My interest is not what people expect from me as a poet; I know I can make burgers, but can I make sushi? I had no sense of what kind of avenues might open up. Because Oregon is 76% white and 2% Black, according to U.S. Census figures, critics say its rare to see more than one or two black jurors assigned to any jury. Do you see paintings as a puzzle? A white reader of these poems has to think hard about his own commodified analysis of them. Probably all my encounters. In my body of work, thats what Im aiming for, and I never can get it. The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager Darkness. 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. Could you get a job for a company using your skills with language? 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. And I think that that - this relentless title comes back to the relentlessness of, you know, the American racism that we live with. And a gate. 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. 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. in the face the music of his wrist-. You cantGrasp your own hustle, your blackness, you cant graspYour own pussy, your black pussy dies for touch. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor about Terrance Hayes' new collection American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. Ive always tried to stay very focused in terms of what I need to write. That might be a better way of thinking about it. 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. So my definition of the academic requires a little outside information. Both of them were in the packet I sent to get into Pitt. As of late January, 201 people with public defenders in Oregon had filed for post-conviction relief, and 50 of them are in Multnomah County, according to data gathered by the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic. For my poetry, I havent had the prize that makes me feel like Im secure and dont need to write another good poem. 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. What do you think universities can do? I did help start the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, which is important in archiving poetry, but most of my concerns, over eighty percent, go toward teaching. The conviction obstructs him in other ways. But when the time came and I looked at studio arts, I couldnt afford it. Its all these other things and the more, the better. They sometimes say, Theres all this new work, and youre still trying to make us read these old white dudes from the canon. Last year at Yale, some students protested, saying, Why do we have to read all these white guys? Jackson is also among those filing for something called post-conviction relief. Im chasing it. 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. Its like James Joyce and Molly Bloom and a fifty-page sentenceJames Joyce really fucked some commas up. Im always torn between the dilemma of saying there has to be something worthwhile to someone other than myself, even though I can get pretty far just eating what I make for myself and having no one else at the table. Hayess talkative poems are, in fact, a form of thinking, fuelled by opposing impulses and contradictory ideas. Americas struggle with itselfHas always had people like me at the heart of it. Theyre also about identity, and some of them talk about race explicitly. [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. The Still in Prison campaign is working to raise public awareness about the impact of Oregons law. I feel like thats something I cant do: the canvas is not big enough to fully capture consciousness in a poem. If I switch metaphorsand Ive had this argument with Mary Karrits like if you make a meal and your audience is waiting to eat it, but when you put it on the table, they have to watch you eat it. 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? The problem is what to do with them after that, if they cant get a job teaching? The day after the 2016 Presidential election, Terrance Hayes wrote the first of the seventy sonnets collected in his new book, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Time had been altered in some baleful and uncertain way; the sonnet offered an alternative unit of measurement, at once ancient, its basic features unchanged for centuries, and urgent, its fourteen lines passing at a brutal clip. After missing out on his kids, he wants to make the most of his time with his grandkids. When people read Sylvia Plath, everyone wanted to write confessional poems. 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. It goes on - really specific, really concrete. Thesis, antithesis, and synthesizingthat certainly is my way of being in the world all the time. The day after . Whether they will be able to change that depends on one unanswered question: Does the Supreme Courts decision apply retroactively to past cases? 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). Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 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. (Courtesy of Lynn James-Jackson), POST-CONVICTION RELIEF: CHANCE FOR RETRIAL. Nikole Hannah-Jones (Narrator), The New York Times Magazine (Contributor), Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. This makes the work morally ambiguous in ways some readers will resist: I suspect that not everybody will recognize blackness as any part, even a rejected part, of Trump, a man whose loathing of black people seems unabashed. I think for younger people especially, everything is so simultaneous now. 2023 Cond Nast. 95 / 100 At Pegasus TAYLOR: Yeah. You have the same judge that has the ability to rectify this offense particularly because this law is particularly steeped in racism, Hayes said. Terrance Hayes. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. When I worked on it, after not having looked at it for two years, I decided it was still bad, and I was cool with that. You can read Toni Morrison and still read Shakespeare. Define life. 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? 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. 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. Some of my undergraduate students dont know that there is another way of learning. Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. But the big challenge was other people trying to tell me how to fix the poems. JW: Do you consider yourself an African-American poet? What do you think is a flaw of your poetry? sort by. Growing up working class and not having anyone who had ever have gone to college, I didnt have an extreme pressure. Terrence Hayes is known for Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2017), Knives Out (2019) and Manchester by the Sea (2016). I wrote them one at a time, and there are six, because a box has six sides. SHAPIRO: (Laughter) Right. I was just doing a Q and A and bouncing between The Simpsons and Picasso. Trending. He calls his mother every morning. And yet: You would be more beautiful without your fear.. JW: College was pivotal for you, and you work in a university. Students should be able to bring us the now, and we should be able to bring them the research and the history, and then that middle ground is what the academy is. Hayes, who is forty-six, won the 2010 National Book Award and is a professor at N.Y.U. I think I read somewhere that you only took one creative writing course. Its powerful because its not an invective so much as a diagnosis. The challenge is to convince students that thats viable. The group is just trying to remind people this still exists, said Gregory McKelvey, a local Democratic activist and strategist for the campaign. I think he could just sit down, listen to some music every day, and feel like he could make an interesting poem. TH: Thats a great question. But I want it to yield something for my primary concerns: teaching and writing poetry. You work on the poem, you bring it in, and people say this is wrong, heres a strategy on how to fix it. 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. I would say, first, thats who I am. The editors discuss two poems by Terrance Hayes called "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" from the September 2017 issue of Poetry. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has the power to allow post-conviction relief cases be sent back to county district attorneys for retrial. Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Classics, 2005 and Tia Chucha Press, 1999). Activists point to New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, who opted not to wait for a court ruling on retroactivity. In fact, you were a painter before you were a poet. TH: Gentle Measures almost went into Lighthead, but I just didnt have it finished. People can come and sit around and talk about work. Like a coin toss that keeps coming up heads, iterated titles suggest an occult lucky streak bound to break. 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. Hayess poems describe the black bodyboth fetishized and criminalized. Perhaps easier to fathom is the notion that Hayes has so internalized the threat of execution that he sees his assassin in the mirror. I wouldnt limit it there: I would say, yes, Im African-American; yes, Im Southern; yes, Im male; yes, Im hip-hop; yes, Im neurotic; yes, Im a bastard poet. TH: Thats an interesting question. Whats great about painting is that all the different things get absorbed, and then theres still a result. You come from a small town in South Carolina and went to college because you had a basketball scholarship. Sometimes he uses sonnets to stump the reader: This word can be the difference between knowing/And thinking. In my last year, I had done a series of paintings on ceiling tiles. A former college basketball star, he treats poetry like a timed game, a theatre for dramatic last-minute outcomes. In the lines from Howl that, I suspect, Hayes has in mind, you can see how blackness is used as a prop. JW: I want to come back to how you reflect upon your own success, but first I want to ask about your relation to art. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Maybe its generational, too. These crisis conditions suit Hayes. In basketball, I was fine. I can put things together and see what is made without having to choose. they rage. It can synthesize historical knowledge and research and contextualize those things, because its happening right now. TAYLOR: And then there's these other moments where it's really unclear who he's talking to. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Future has this song Fuck Up Some Commas. Hes talking about money, but when I hear it, I hear it about syntax and the way a sentence is built. 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 . To stay with the food metaphor, you can make something bad. TH: You get that with students. So I would hope that in my forties I would be different, more interesting, and know moreand probably be more ambivalentthan I was in my twenties. He was a Yankee and he was generally bored and impatient with everything about the South, but he liked me and he thought I was special. 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. Then in Lighthead, theres a lot of fire throughout the book, so Im playing around with the paradox of fire and lighting things up. Im mostly interested in philosophers that have an interest in languageWittgenstein, even Nietzsche. Terrance Hayes is probably the most innovative poet addressing the complexities of race in America today. When I got in, the joy of college was my teachers. Tacuma Jackson, 46, is shown with his three granddaughters. To me, personality is getting close to something like transparency. 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. I could talk to myself in a room and come up with something, but I wouldnt want to only do only that. On the other hand, it has to be gratifying. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. So when my mother saw my earliest poems in the first book, she was like, Oh, it was just your imagination.. 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. Terrance Hayes explicates, "If you subtract the minor losses,/you can return to your childhood too:/the blackboard chalked with crosses." The 'minor losses' signify Terrance's childhood, heartening innocence. 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. 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. Rosenblum, who initially spoke in favor of repealing the law, eventually filed a brief in Ramos v. Louisiana opposing the U.S. Supreme Court overturning split jury verdicts. 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. 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. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Terrence Haynes. With success, you get encouraged to think, Im so special that people will just watch me be me. So when Pacino starts being himself in his movies and stops acting, people accept that and say, Oh, its Al Pacino! shelved 32,633 times. JW: Is there a tension between form or aesthetic value and identity? Terrance Hayes began writing this innovative "crown" (or "corona") of sonnets the day after Donald Trump was elected US president, and Trump himself is clearly among the company addressed . I like the poem where you play off the line Thank you for your service.. All rights reserved. Ive been talking for a year about this poem that I started in 2009, and in 2013 I printed it out and it was 244 pages. TAYLOR: Yeah, that raise questions. On May 27, 1999, 22-year-old Terrence Haynes was standing on the porch of a friend, Gary Hammond Jr., in Kankakee, Illinois, when 18-year-old Cezaire Murrell walked up the sidewalk, shoved a man out of the way, and came onto the porch to confront Haynes. watch your mouth is little more. The sonnet, an Italian contrivance adapted by the poets of the English Renaissance, was handed down to twentieth-century writers like Robert Lowell and Gwendolyn Brooks and self-consciously Americanizedits gait loosened, its politics sharpened. My father would say, Youre going to go to collegeyoure smart. But they didnt have any savings. And SHAPIRO: We should tell people that Terrance Hayes is a black poet, and blackness - and maleness comes up a lot in these poems. Eliot, so the model for the poet who lives as a poet would primarily be rich white dudes. Or maybe they wont. The poet Terrance Hayes first arrived on the scene in 1999 with a book called "Muscular Music." It's really inventive, right? We knew where it came from, we knew it was designed culturally for us, for Black men, people of color, Jackson said. I do think that the phenomena where you have access to all of that information makes you polyglot. And how should I look at my partner: in her eyesOr at her body? 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. But there are also parts of my personality that just have to do with some weird thing my mother said to me or that I sat on the lap of a woman that couldnt speak at a piano when I was three years old. Doing that, she argued, would re-traumatize crime victims and survivors and overwhelm our states criminal justice system.. Some of the resources available to me now allow me to put myself in new situations, but that has never been my ambition. Jeffrey J. Williams: You use a variety of forms, you sometimes draw from popular culture, and your poetry changes from book to book, so it would be hard to define you as one kind of poet or from one school. The sonnet clips its authors wingsand yet a wide sample of appetites and aversions, vices and virtues, sneaks into it. And the poem opens out into this big question - define life. This song cycles center on what it means to be a Black man living in America today. 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. 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. His claim of self-defense was rejected by a jury that convicted him, 10-2, of attempted murder, assault and unlawful use of a weapon. TH: Its true, I do like OHara, I like Berrigan, and I actually like Ashbery, too. 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. I dont think the number increases or decreases the potential for finding real brilliance in the pool. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. to see him on the basketball court. He was the type of professor whose house youd visit, and all my family had met him before he passed. You told me another time that, when you were growing up, you didnt know if youd become a corrections officer like your mother or go into the military like your stepfather, but you came to poetry while you were in college. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. If I see something is wrong, I will say its wrong. But clearly the cool-blooded Amphibian-American does not agree. Part of my personality, certainly, is because Im black, and Im Southern, and Im male. Who those people are, I dont really think too much about that. Tess's most recent book of poetry is called "Work And Days." 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. 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