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American sonnets for my past and future assassin
Title:
American sonnets for my past and future assassin
Author:
Hayes, Terrance author.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
Physical Description:
91 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"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"--

"In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. These poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares"--
Language:
English
Genre:
ISBN:
9780143133186
Format :
Book