Winter/Spring 2001Volume II Issue I

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Terrance Hayes  received a 1999 Whiting Writers Award and the 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book of poems,

Muscular Music

His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, The Beliot Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Callaloo, and River City, as well as in several anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation.

 

 

 

The Anagram Poems are adopted from the word game puzzles found in several syndicated newspapers: 1. End words must be derived from four or more letters in the title. 2.Words which acquire four letters by the addition of "s" are not used. 3. Only one form of a verb is used.

 

g e n e r a l

Terrance Hayes

 

The eager

heart of someone the War doesn't near.

A leer

straight out of the John Wayne Genre.

An eagle

blazing on his brim & breastplate, his useless battle gear.

Without him how would his men learn

the eighty-four methods used to change anger

into the angle

of light on a blade? The Angel

of Light on a blade? Into a gnarl & glare?

 

© 2001 by Terrance Hayes

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