American sonnets for my past and future assassin - terrance hayes

Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of Americas most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trumps 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 countrys 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.