Terrance Hayes Quotes

• Ask a glass of water why it pities
  the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

  Terrance Hayes

  Dog, Rain, Glasses

  Terrance Hayes (2010). “Lighthead”, p.14, Penguin

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Pensamiento, Personas, Expectativas

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• Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

  Terrance Hayes

  White, Church, Degrees

  Terrance Hayes (2006). “Wind in a Box”, p.32, Penguin

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• Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.

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  Beautiful, Book, Compassion

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• In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

  Terrance Hayes

  Flower, Book, Biblical

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• Uno de los muchos logros de Still Lifes es su paradójica mezcla de intensidad y quietud. Las visiones de Alexander Long sobre el paisaje, la identidad y "la propia Historia, una broma que nadie entiende" son simultáneamente meditativas y alertas, inquietas y concentradas. Se trata de un poeta inteligente y compasivo. Naturaleza muerta es un nuevo libro fascinante.

  Terrance Hayes

  Smart, Book, Achievement

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