This pairing of extremes and finding something in between them recurs throughout the poem. Lindsay Garbutt: I kept thinking about those last two sentences, “It is not enough to love you. Voltas of acoustics, instinct & metaphor. I make you a box of darkness with a bird in its heart. Shit dropping to your floors is not unlike the starsįalling from the pep rally posters on your walls. You undergo a beautiful catharsis trapped one night While your better selves watch from the bleachers. I lock your persona in a dream-inducing sleeper hold Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone. I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame. Terrance Hayes: I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, The first is the one where Terrance Hayes says he’s coming closest to saying what an American sonnet is. Can I still love him? Can I write a sonnet to my assassin? That’s really what drives all of them.ĭon Share: We have four of these poems in the September issue, and we’ll hear two of them now. Terrance Hayes: I think this dude is trying to kill me.
Lindsay Garbutt: He did say though, that behind all the poems is an implicit threat and a question. It’s like a bunch of poems called the rose. Although, they’re not all about him, but the question in every poem is what is an American sonnet and who is the assassin? That’s it, otherwise they have nothing to do with each other. Terrance Hayes: So I’ve been writing all these poems since Trump got elected.
Lindsay Garbutt: Actually, it’s going to be hard to say which is the title poem of his next book, because all the poems bear the same title: “American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin”. A few years ago, we had the title poem of that book in the magazine, and we think we have the title poem of his next book in the September issue. On The Poetry Magazine Podcast we listen to a poem or two in the current issue.ĭon Share: Terrance Hayes’ most recent book is How To Be Drawn. Lindsay Garbutt: And I’m Lindsay Garbutt, associate editor for the magazine. I’m Don Share, editor of Poetry Magazine. Don Share: This is The Poetry Magazine Podcast for the week of September 11, 2017.
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