American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

2018 • 82 pages

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"A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead. In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning"--

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Liked hearing him perform his own poems, but weirdly the audiobook was missing a few sonnets (??) so went back to the book. There are a few that I will want to read again, some really powerful pieces here.

April 12, 2020
January 26, 2019

A black mans truth, pain and ramblings. I felt the intensity of his words (I listened to the audio book). This book of poems is on the way to me, as we speak. I will refer back to these poems, again.

July 30, 2019