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. […]
March 24, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XVII: An American Sonnet by Any Other Name)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XVI: ‘What’s up ahead / which is resistance’)”] In the “Brief Glossary of Forms and Other Terms” at the end of David Lehman’s Ecstatic Occasions, […]
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 […]
November 27, 2017
American Sonnets (Part IV: As American As…)
[Continued from “Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part III: Hayes and The Confidence of Influence”] When I first decided to write about Terrance Hayes’s new “American Sonnet for My Past and Future […]
October 30, 2017
Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part III: Hayes and The Confidence of Influence)
[Continued from “Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part II)”] While my intention in my last post was simply to begin to connect Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnets” with Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnets for […]
October 25, 2017
Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part II)
[Continued from “Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part I)”] I trace Hayes’s “American Sonnet” impulse and form to Wanda Coleman, but Coleman and Hayes are certainly not alone in making the sonnet […]
October 24, 2017
Hayes’s American Sonnets (Part I)
There is a particular excitement in experiencing a favorite poet’s new project unfurl, if not in real time as its poems are written, then soon after, before a collection binds […]