Poem found here: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
More about the Poet: Terrance Hayes
I remember reading parts of this collection at my friend's house. I haven't read much of him, but knew he was really good. You don't get a National Book Award for nothing, right. I've been hitting a rough patch with poetry as life cuts in: full-time job, bills, responsibilities. It seems I just don't make the time.
And in a weird segway, this poem plays with grandeur things like Time, parallel worlds, and gods. Also, unfortunately, I don't know anything about Dr. Who. I should though, shouldn't I? Does this matter in the context of the poem when, in an instant, the speaker says, "In a parallel world where all Dr. Who's / Are black [...]" changes the race of the entire history of things but are still recognizable or a "parallel world."
Note, not opposite. Parallel means just slight changes to the norm -- deviance is more of an opposite reaction. Time is still powerful in our time, but there's more of an emphasis which changes the culture of this parallel world.
Is it why the following three sentences don't make sense to me?
I think it's clever word play with hard stopped sounds as though in an angry flow. But what does it mean for the doctors to see the cops box black boys in cop cars and casket? Especially when the next line have the doctors pass out when to see a police box. I don't think it matters that I get it, is that I feel the lines -- the flow off anger and harsh words while the actions seem more impotent -- in a parallel world.
Question
Who is the speaker talking to now, the parallel self?
Question: if , in a parallel world where every Dr.
Who was black, you were the complex Time Lord,
When & where would you explore?
Dr. Who and the other being Time lord who is set up to be the most powerful force. Is, answer, parallel to the self but both powerless in a physical sense when, "a knee or shoe stalls against his neck." Even in a parallel world the image of the self seems more relevant than the feeling, reaction, outcries.
More about the Poet: Terrance Hayes
And in a weird segway, this poem plays with grandeur things like Time, parallel worlds, and gods. Also, unfortunately, I don't know anything about Dr. Who. I should though, shouldn't I? Does this matter in the context of the poem when, in an instant, the speaker says, "In a parallel world where all Dr. Who's / Are black [...]" changes the race of the entire history of things but are still recognizable or a "parallel world."
Note, not opposite. Parallel means just slight changes to the norm -- deviance is more of an opposite reaction. Time is still powerful in our time, but there's more of an emphasis which changes the culture of this parallel world.
Is it why the following three sentences don't make sense to me?
Where all the doctors who are black see cops
Box black boys in cop cars & caskets, I'm
The doctor who blacks out whenever he sees
A police box [...]
I think it's clever word play with hard stopped sounds as though in an angry flow. But what does it mean for the doctors to see the cops box black boys in cop cars and casket? Especially when the next line have the doctors pass out when to see a police box. I don't think it matters that I get it, is that I feel the lines -- the flow off anger and harsh words while the actions seem more impotent -- in a parallel world.
Question
Who is the speaker talking to now, the parallel self?
Question: if , in a parallel world where every Dr.
Who was black, you were the complex Time Lord,
When & where would you explore?
Dr. Who and the other being Time lord who is set up to be the most powerful force. Is, answer, parallel to the self but both powerless in a physical sense when, "a knee or shoe stalls against his neck." Even in a parallel world the image of the self seems more relevant than the feeling, reaction, outcries.
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