"Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down"
"What do we recognize when we recognize Hayes? On the one hand, it’s wrong to reduce any artist’s work to a single topic, even one as capacious as Blackness, or whiteness, or self-consciousness, or love, or regret. On the other hand, these poems neither wish to, nor find themselves able to, get away from Afro-diasporic identities, from disappointment in romantic love, and from a history of dispossession."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sandra Lim on "Black Box"
"My poem, 'Black Box,' is beguiled by the metaphor of the black box as a way to broach the world, the people around us, and our own hearts. Part of that beguilement also has to do with the very limits of the black box metaphor itself; conceptual orderliness of a certain way of thinking can imprison us in a limiting framework—the black box is itself a black box. One way out of this is to construct more conceptual frameworks with horizons of possibility going far beyond what we hold to be true, or at least, visible." |
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