American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Penguin Books

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry

Named a Best American Poetry Book of the 21st Century (So Far) by The Atlantic

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

"Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." --The New York Times

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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780143133186
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Terrance Hayes
Published Date:
2018-06-19
Language:
English
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About Terrance Hayes

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and earned a BA from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier collections include Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor at New York University.

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