There is a notion — best expressed by Harry Lime, the genial psychopath played by Orson Welles in “The Third Man” — that bad times make for good art. “In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they ...
Terrance Hayes discusses the heat in poetry, and writing that takes us past our boundaries. His new book, seventy sonnets written in the first two hundred days of Trump's presidency, American Sonnets ...