Terrance Hayes
Auteur de American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Terrance Hayes
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight (2018) 24 exemplaires
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry (2023) 15 exemplaires
God is an American 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) (2022) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series) (2023) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Avant-propos — 17 exemplaires
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hayes, Terrance
- Date de naissance
- 1971-11-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Études
- Coker College (BA)
University of Pittsburgh (MFA ∙ 1997) - Professions
- dichter
docent - Organisations
- Carnegie Mellon University
University of Pittsburgh - Prix et distinctions
- Whiting Writers' Award (1999)
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 40
- Membres
- 1,115
- Popularité
- #23,041
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 31
- Favoris
- 4
But where these poems fail me is how they often feel that they are retained in the same overly careful mental space, which gives the collection the feeling that there is an unused potency in these poems that is being kept caged and inert. Every time I read the title "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" it had this sense of being reset, of going back to a starting place, with a kind of anticipation of what would come next, which grew over the repetitions of that increasingly familiar refrain. I found that a bit exciting with its potential, but overall, as a collection, a feeling of slight inhibition come over me as I progressed through those "resets," as if Hayes was trying too hard to not have one poem be more engaging or stand out more than the one prior or following it. Hayes' powerful voice over the course of these poems became more like a museum guide who needs to maintain a steady pace through the museum, not letting the group linger too long at any one exhibit, and I'm not sure Hayes' gift for luscious wordplay and intense emotional response that invite the reader to engage his poetry more deeply is best served by that carefulness.… (plus d'informations)