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… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
“I am carrying the whimper you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom of monkeys. Ask a glass of water why it… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks .… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
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… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
“If you and every person in the county mailed me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think I could rehabilitate the sheep.” — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
