“When we asked Terrance Hayes to make a playlist for you, our readers, he wrote us a poem. Of course he did. As Hayes told Hilton Als in his Art of Poetry interview in our new Fall issue, formal constraints offer him ‘a way to get free.’ Many of Hayes’s poems derive their titles from song names and lyrics; others are influenced by the mood of a particular album or track. Music, he tells Als, ‘changes the air in the room.’ This particular playlist-poem has a track for almost any kind of air—or room—you might find yourself in this week. Read and listen to ‘Occasional Soundtracks’ below. ...”
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