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“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.”
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theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457422/so-to-speak-by-hayes-terrance
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“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.”
Additional Links:
theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457422/so-to-speak-by-hayes-terrance
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