American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes - ISBN: 9780141989112
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American Sonnets: A poetic ride through love, loss, and political turmoil.

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2018

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Summary

Written during the first 200 days of the Trump administration, a seventy-poem roller-coaster ride through politics, music, life and love.

The black poet would love to say his century began With Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset Bridges & windows. In a second I’ll tell you how little Writing rescues.

So begins this astonishing, muscular sequenc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141989112
ISBN-10:0141989114
Author:Terrance Hayes
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:15 July 2018
Weight:105g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 10mm
About The Author

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.

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