July 25, 2018
“the little song pulsing”: An Interview with Oliver de la Paz
[Continued from “Scaffolding”] * When I read Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 25,” which the Academy of American Poets featured as its Poem-a-Day selection earlier this month, I […]
June 26, 2018
Scaffolding
[Continued from “Pros[onn]e[t]”] * Where the title of Nikki Wallschlaeger’s Crawlspace, published by Bloof Books in 2017, pointed the reader toward the collections’s subversive sonnet form as an enactment of both interiority […]
June 5, 2018
Crawlspace
[Continued from Age of Glass] * Face me in your sonnets so I can permanently grieve is really what the roses say to the antebellum purling dog tags of myself. […]
May 1, 2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XIX: The Pure Products of America)”] Now that I have my hands on the whole of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, […]
February 19, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XVI: “what’s up ahead / which is resistance”)
[Continued from: “American Sonnets (Part XV: Some Sonnets)”] Ashbery’s second book The Tennis Court Oath, published in 1962, contained “Two Sonnets” too—directly after “America” and a few poems removed from “‘They Dream […]
February 12, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XIV: Stein’s Sonnet)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XIII: The Hinges)”] In my last post, I thought a bit about how Gertrude Stein first opened up (or rather, unhinged) some of the doors […]
February 2, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XIII: The Hinges)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XII: Precursors)”] Terrance Hayes connects with Harryette Mullen connects with Gertrude Stein connects with Terrance Hayes. The links (hyper- and literary) above aren’t just from […]
January 19, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XI: Insistence)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part X: Box, Box, Boxes, Boxes In)”] In addition to the overlapping concerns of form and content I began to consider in the previous post, Stein’s […]
December 20, 2017
American Sonnets (Part VIII: A Tale of Two Sonnets)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part VII: Close-up On Coleman)”] The first published sonnet by Terrance Hayes I can find is in his debut collection Muscular Music, originally published by Tia Chucha […]
December 14, 2017
American Sonnets (Part VII: Close-up on Coleman)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part VI: Hayes In His Own Words)”] Wanda Coleman’s 100 American Sonnets span several collections of her poems, a series that reads as both a cohesive […]
December 7, 2017
American Sonnets (Part VI: Hayes In His Own Words)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part V: Hayes In His Own Words)”] Terrance Hayes’s conversation with Rachel Zucker, discussed in my previous post, is certainly not the only conversation in which […]
December 5, 2017
American Sonnets (Part V: Hayes in His Own Words)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part IV: As American As…)”] Hayes himself confirms some of the contextualizing ground I’ve covered in the past few posts in talking about his new American Sonnet […]