{"id":161645,"date":"2022-09-19T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=161645"},"modified":"2022-09-19T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:44:27","slug":"terrance-hayess-soundtracks-for-most-any-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/19\/terrance-hayess-soundtracks-for-most-any-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrance Hayes\u2019s Soundtracks for Most Any Occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_161655\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161655\" class=\"wp-image-161655 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records-e1663602930626-1024x737.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records-e1663602930626-1024x737.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records-e1663602930626-300x216.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records-e1663602930626-768x553.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/records-e1663602930626.jpeg 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jem Stone,\u00a0via <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/31\/Vinyl_Vinyl_Vinyl_-_Flickr_-_jem.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Licensed under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7930\/the-art-of-poetry-no-111-terrance-hayes\">Art of Poetry<\/a> interview in our new Fall issue, formal constraints offer him &#8220;a way to get free.\u201d Many of Hayes\u2019s 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, \u201cchanges the air in the room.\u201d This particular playlist-poem has a track for almost any kind of air\u2014or room\u2014you might find yourself in this week. 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