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Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

Orpheus and the Sonnets Book

i like orpheus quite a bit. And he shows up in the other poem, thats in a new yorker. I think it's like he invented writing or something like that. That doesn't make him any less interesting, but it just changes my sense of their relationship about, well, the poet is the one who's abandoned and not the one who has gone out. It's just the kind of interesting idea that is in that poem. So i am trying to capture that between space. Like, i want to be able to write sonnets for a figure, a president, a a lover, a money,. Things that really try to wipe you out, you know. Is

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