TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayes,Terrance
TI  - American sonnets for my past and future assassin
T2  - Penguin poets
SN  - 9780143133186 (paperback)
AV  - PS3558.A8378 A6 2018
U1  - 811/.54 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Poets
KW  - POETRY / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY / American / African American
KW  - American poetry
N2  - "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"--
ER  -