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Terrance Hayes reads Matthew Dickman

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Miles Davis and Grace Jones

Miles davis and grace jones appear in the poem "Yono," written by Matthew Quick. The poet says he was thinking about a contradictory, you know, like angry horn that the poem is kind of playing with totally at least. Writer: Every poem is probably half true, or mostly true, built on a bed of imagined things.

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