American sonnets for my past and future assassin /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Terrance Hayes.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Penguin Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
91 pages :
Other Physical Details
portrait ;
Dimensions
22 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Penguin poets
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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"--
Text of Note
"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"--