Terrance Hayes

“This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.”

— Terrance Hayes

“It’s better plus less stressful to think the best of people.”

— Terrance Hayes

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

— Terrance Hayes

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant…

— Terrance Hayes

“If you and every person in the county mailed me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think I could rehabilitate…

— Terrance Hayes

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…

— Terrance Hayes

“I am carrying the whimper you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom of monkeys. Ask a glass of water…

— Terrance Hayes

One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History…

— Terrance Hayes

Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of…

— Terrance Hayes

In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew…

— Terrance Hayes