Copyright 2018 NPR. My whole life journey is pretty much to get back to my people, Jackson said. You cantGrasp your own hustle, your blackness, you cant graspYour own pussy, your black pussy dies for touch. He envies poets who have the luxury of wandering into all corners of American life. I like the poem where you play off the line Thank you for your service.. I had another poem about my father working in the yard called The Earth God, and I worked on it for about two years. 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. In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. That might be true, but I think for the last ten or fifteen years, Ashbery wrote the same book. For decades, Oregon and Louisiana were the only states that allowed felony convictions by split jury votes. I think what young folks recoil from is when they show up and say, I was just listening to something interesting, or I just saw something interesting on my Twitter feed, and older folks say thats not important. 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. Reverting to childhood may be an impossibility, but it is the solitary unquestionable way to recuperate unblemished happiness . You aint allowed to derideWomen when youve never wept in front of a womanThat wasnt your mother. Blacks make up 2% of Oregons population, but they represent 17.9% of petitioners. The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes. Is it also a little gimmicky (ph)? JW: College was pivotal for you, and you work in a university. But Marys attitude is that, if you never get to eat it, youre like the cafeteria worker, which is why she does not like that kind of poetry. There are beautiful, personal poems about Hayess father and the consequences of being abandoned by him. Even if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against retroactivity, however, that wont bind Oregon courts, Kaplan said. When I stop by McDonalds for a cheeseburger, no one suspects what I am. I was just doing a Q and A and bouncing between The Simpsons and Picasso. You are beautiful because of your sadness, Hayes admits. 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. But Hayes isnt describing canonical melancholy, the pined-for vision of mortality that poets sometimes indulge in. It was because I couldnt afford a twelve-by-twelve canvas for each of the pieces. Its not like you could move something out just because it happens to not look like you. Its the right thing to do; we shouldnt wait for a court ruling to do this, association legislative director Mae Lee Browning told The Oregonian/OregonLive. So I operate in the long view: whatever prize I get today doesnt guarantee a real legacy. JW: Is there a tension between form or aesthetic value and identity? He was the type of professor whose house youd visit, and all my family had met him before he passed. 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. I feel like thats something I cant do: the canvas is not big enough to fully capture consciousness in a poem. The former Presidents political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans. 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. So I really could not afford to do the kind of art I wanted to do in graduate school. Are existential jambalaya. TH: Maybe a satirical question like in Support the Troops! where Im asking, why should I support them? Thats what the academy is: knowing how to find things you dont know, as opposed to these are the things you should know. And to me, academic discourse is about making connections and contextualizing. Its a pecha kucha, a Japanese form. JW: Where would you place your work? I mean, he could've just given the book that title and called each sonnet one, two, three, four, five or the first line of the poem. 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. I feel like this is true in the poetry process. SHAPIRO: Tess Taylor sharing Terrance Hayes's new collection called "American Sonnets From My Past And Future Assassin." 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. So an experimental workshop asks, Why were you trying to do this? TH: Its true, I do like OHara, I like Berrigan, and I actually like Ashbery, too. Do you see paintings as a puzzle? 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? To me, the conversation is done once I choose a side. These crisis conditions suit Hayes. Above all, hes waiting on Rosenblum. What I hate is a white canvas, and I dont like one layer of paint. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. They hope to provide resources for mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and re-entry for formerly incarcerated people. How does that bear on your poetry? 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. And his answer is its just language, its just poetry. Its too much; itll overwhelm my courts, and Im like, ok, they overwhelmed a lot of families, Jackson said, and a lot of my neighborhood and my communities, Black communities.. They all had faces of oranges in them and a bunch of other stuff. JW: If I were to periodize your work, Id say there are three phases so far. 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. Terrance Hayes observes, "Even if you love the racket of ascension,/you must know how the power leaves you.". Whether thats a black barbershop, or working as a temp in an office, or working in a warehouse, I always felt there was nobody in that space like me., Im not that interested in anything other than making something, playing with something, and it doesnt have to be anything other than poetry., On Choosing a New York I Didn't Think I Wanted. American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous"] By Terrance Hayes. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has the power to allow post-conviction relief cases be sent back to county district attorneys for retrial. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. 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. TAYLOR: Well, again, it's interesting in that poem that I just read where he says, assassin, you are a mystery to me, I say to my reflection sometimes. 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. A white reader of these poems has to think hard about his own commodified analysis of them. He calls his mother every morning. Army Veteran and former VA employee, Terrence Hayes, is the VFW's National Director of Communications. Thats great! But I still want to see him be somebody else. JW: Related to art, theres been a lot of critical writing about postmodernism and different kinds of theories, and you mentioned Benjamin. Theres an assumption in contemporary literature that writers represent their identities. (Im one of the few people I know of in my cohort that doesnt do social media. From the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. whether the poem speaks of #devastation or #hope whether it happens #before or #after the afternoon came evening's bell. TH: Yesand many other things. A week earlier, Murrell had assaulted Haynes at a shopping mall in an . TH: Thats an interesting question. 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. Im a dialectical thinker. The reason I used them is because I could get a big box of tiles for like five dollars. Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. I need the tension of asking myself day to day, Is that what I think? Maybe thats what gets called ambivalence or curiosity or even just playingand it was different when I was in my twenties. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. [7] He won the National Book Award for Lighthead[1] (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form). I dont work like that, and I dont think thats the best way to open up ones creativity, so Im telling them that Ive gotten here by just keeping my nose an inch from the page. 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. Probably all my encounters. How did you get here? I always thought I wasnt that much different from anybody else. I was born in 71, and we had multitasking and were in the electronic age. But when the time came and I looked at studio arts, I couldnt afford it. watch your mouth is little more. It can synthesize historical knowledge and research and contextualize those things, because its happening right now. 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. Sometimes it seems like the New York School, but at other times, its very different. Presiding Judge Ellen Rosenblum sentenced him to more than 12 years in prison. The joke in my classes and in my household is that I am always timing and measuring everything. 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? On the other hand, its romantic to assume that youre going to be poor. [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. But for myself, I try not to think about it too much. Because I was lucky enough to get a scholarship, my parents didnt feel compelled to tell me what to do. 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. Define life. Id rather take a year to figure it out than have you tell me in five minutes whats wrong with it. But I hear, too, an affectionate nod to a lover. TH: Once your picture is up at the airport, theres always people making proposals to you about what they think your name could lend to their ventures. JW: Do you think its because you had an anomalous path coming into poetry? TH: Yeah, but its not always just my imagination. And I think, if I was really trying to fully capture consciousness, I would have to leave poems. of the ball and chain around . 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). TH: Flexibility is what makes a good program. So why would I have to segregate them? But does that mean Im only making black-eyed peas and collard greens? If youve got a restaurant and youre McDonalds, you cant sell sushi, you just make burgers. 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. My dad said, Maybe you should major in business. If he had said that when I was eight years old, I probably would have done it, but it was too late. Thelonious Monk says there is no failure, theres only rehearsal and practice. Im not that interested in anything other than making something, playing with something, and it doesnt have to be anything other than poetry. Its all these other things and the more, the better. So, if Im talking to someone, and I mention Glenn Gould and Future, or Picasso and Lil Wayne, my mind is always bridging those two things. I can put things together and see what is made without having to choose. Its so erotic! And then for the next year, I was working on a poem that was totally a Keats imitation. TH: Yeah, a full ride. from Coker University and an M.F.A. In his five books, he has perfected a sort of poem where wild jams carom inside arbitrary formal boundaries. Sometimes they seem eclecticwith references from pop culture to high artbut your motivation is toward synthesis. I think about the next poem, because Im always thinking I could do better, and have I done the best I can? People from the outside sometimes look at me and look at how things are going, and they say, You were very strategic. To fuck up some commas is an interesting idea. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Terrance Hayes earned a BA at Coker College and an MFA at the University of Pittsburgh. It allows me to not get too caught up in terms of privacy and secrecy across the poems. Hayess talkative poems are, in fact, a form of thinking, fuelled by opposing impulses and contradictory ideas. In his fight for a retrial, Jackson is joined by a coalition that is beginning to form around the issue. TH: One thing that people say is that were creating robots, and students are just writing the same poems. After that, he taught in Japan, at Xavier University in Louisiana, and from 2001 to 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University. I knew that was my only course of action, Jackson said. Dave Killen/The OregonianThe Oregonian. Some defendants were retried and convicted again, while others had charges dropped or were retried and released. This interview took place on June 24 and July 1, 2016, in Pittsburgh. of the day, the children dump their school gear TH: Thats a great question. In his quiet Southeast Portland townhouse, Jackson said he can walk outside and hear the birds and the woodpeckers. Hayes said hes disappointed in Rosenblums decision to wait, especially with her being the judge that oversaw his case 16 years before. Which is really lucky. 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. Some of the older teachers crowd in the doorway like befuddled geese. TH: The most basic one is Hegel and the dialectic. Born in 1971 in Columbia, SC, Hayess mother was a corrections officer and father a military barber. You kill me can be a compliment. 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). Like a coin toss that keeps coming up heads, iterated titles suggest an occult lucky streak bound to break. 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. 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. How can I be a better teacher? And yet I still feel like theres something wrong with trying to force me to support the troops. You have to be adaptable. JW: Do you consider yourself an African-American poet? previous 1 2 next . 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: There are more than four hundred creative writing programs in the United States. 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. Ive always had a sense of moving into spaces where I felt a little bit different. Hawaii, Florida, Chicago, Atlanta anywhere there was family, he was there, he said. JW: One complaint about creative writing programs is that they routinize the process and produce cookie-cutter writing, but the university also allows a lot of people to write and do things like that. Baraka would say your obligation is to feed black people. They must withstand humiliating sexual reviews to participate in the economy at all: There was black male review for ladies nightAt the nightclub. 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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. And yet: You would be more beautiful without your fear.. 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. 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. I was gonna fight it until I couldnt fight anymore.. The university space should be, ideally, a fluid space, but instead we often encounter people saying, This is at the top of the pyramid, and everything else is beneath it. I think that a good program values Language poets the same way they value Black Arts poets and confessional poets. Trumpet: . Sometimes he uses sonnets to stump the reader: This word can be the difference between knowing/And thinking. Jackson is also among those filing for something called post-conviction relief. Kate Brown, who has commuted sentences for more than 100 prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Are you making a landscape or a figure drawing when you put the puzzle together? The best stuff still hasnt happened. out of the ring of fire around. [1] In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. Could you run a press? I just want to be writing, and I dont care that much if you say you love it or you hate it. 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. These cases returned to the county level, where district attorneys could decide whether to retry or take some other action. People can come and sit around and talk about work. It gets into the art for arts sake versus social purpose argument, but I think the real purpose is who do you want at the table with you? In her statement announcing she had filed a brief in the Ramos case, she cited the practical consequences that could result from overturning cases. All rights reserved. Terrance Hayes, others to serve as interim editors of Pitt Poetry Series Thursday, January 13, 2022 The Pitt Poetry Series, which was created by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1967, is transitioning from the longtime editorship of Ed Ochester, who retired in October after more than four decades at the helm of the series. The challenge is to convince students that thats viable. 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. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic, Penguin Books, 2002. You find that out especially as a teacher. Its still an open-ended process. Ive realized that my students definitely need to be praised and encouraged, but my method goes back, again, to the way I write my own poems. JW: When you went to Coker College, you went for visual arts. Thats a nightmare for me. That gets back to transparency. You've got the soundtrack. I dont think Ashbery thinks that. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Sometimes it might be confessional, but I do like to make stuff up. She cited the practical consequences of allowing hundreds, potentially thousands of past cases be retried. Those arent academic poems. She could choose to let those peoples cases through and let them start over and get a fair trial, Kaplan said. . He received a MacArthur Fellowship beginning in 2014. The last poem in Hip Logic, The Same City, is about my stepdad and about the way I appreciate this man whos raised me. After missing out on his kids, he wants to make the most of his time with his grandkids. Dont you want to see me eat it too? Issue Date: September 28, 2015. SHAPIRO: The most striking thing about this book when you open it up is that each poem has the same title. A former college basketball star, he treats poetry like a timed game, a theatre for dramatic last-minute outcomes. On the one hand, it seems like your career was accidental. Are existential jambalaya. 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 was a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University until 2013, at which time he joined the faculty at the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Maybe theyll like caviar, maybe youll like octopus. In fact, you were a painter before you were a poet. 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. The latter won the Poetry Foundation's 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Thats what I find interesting, and to have that wall stops it. JW: I want to ask about your background and how you came to do poetry. 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. As he remarks in this interview, he resists being tied to one adjective to describe himself as a poet. But I dont think thats always true for other people. He is known for his collections American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins and To Float In The Space Between. Youre a synthetic poet. 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. Its always what I go back to, and everything is filtered through that. June 25, 2018. I used to do it, but it was taking up too many of my words.) TH: I feel limited as a painter. Could you do community workshops? The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager 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. They want Rosenblum to give them that chance. Hayes is preparing to file for post-conviction relief. Whats great about painting is that all the different things get absorbed, and then theres still a result. Then, finding him in my forties, and becoming somewhat ambivalent about what that means. In basketball, I was fine. Since graduate school, Hayes has published a steady stream of books, beginning with Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999; reprint Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006); Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002), selected for the National Poetry Series; Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006); Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), which won a National Book Award; How to Draw (Penguin, 2015); and the forthcoming American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018). YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. I also thought that, when I finished, I would just go back home. Menu. Theyre also about identity, and some of them talk about race explicitly. In all of his work, five poetry collections to date, he ferociously unearths the layers of racist thinking and its harmful effects, often using the poem's form as his tool. They love their grandpop, Jackson said. JW: I can see how youre a time poet rather than a space poet. This figure of something violent keeps moving around this collection, and it doesn't stick to any one thing. The Criminal Justice Reform Clinic gathered racial data from public records on the group of people who have filed relief petitions asking for the Supreme Court ruling to apply to them as of late January. Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. What's going on here? Of his son the way one twilight matches another. And how should I look at my partner: in her eyesOr at her body? I knew I could talk to this professor about Faulkner because he was teaching it. 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. I want to be writing about something; I want to have a subject like novels can, capturing a whole world. [4] Currently, he teaches at New York University.[5]. TH: Right, Intro to Creative Writing. That goes to the question of how much you allow yourself to fail in your day-to-day practice. You obviously did OK, but how did it go in the program? Terrance Hayes is one of the most celebrated poets of his generation. Its important that new things can show up, as opposed to things that shut doors and segregate people. Whether they will be able to change that depends on one unanswered question: Does the Supreme Courts decision apply retroactively to past cases? Activists want Rosenblum to act now, otherwise an answer could be months away. by. In my ignorance, though, that meant I was majoring in fine arts, and I was taking writing. 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. I dont think the number increases or decreases the potential for finding real brilliance in the pool. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Terrance Hayes earned a BA at Coker College and an MFA at the University of Pittsburgh. In the second and third books, Hip Logic and Wind in a Box, youre experimenting more with form, whether it be the sonnet or other patterns of repetition. 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. Ginsbergs comrades sang out of their windows in despair, jumped in the filthy Passaic, leaped on negroes, and danced on broken wineglasses barefoot smashed phonograph records. The white bohemians have the freedom to go on benders and sprees, while Hayes must wonder how to hold my face. He is not afraid of looking goofy; he is afraid of being murdered. I dont think anybody is just a poet with no adjectives. I was just at one on page 37, and it ends in the middle of an interstate rest stop parking lot. 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