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Book Title
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Publication Name
American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin
Title
American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin
Author
Terrance Hayes
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0143133187
EAN
9780143133186
ISBN
9780143133186
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Genre
Poetry
Release Year
2018
Release Date
19/06/2018
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
8.4in
Publication Year
2018
Topic
American / African American, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz
Number of Pages
112 Pages

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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 America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's 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 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.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143133187
ISBN-13
9780143133186
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240091465

Product Key Features

Book Title
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Author
Terrance Hayes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
112 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3558.A8378a6 2018
Reviews
"Hayes set himself the challenge of writing political poems in the guise of love poems. Each one is distinct: Some are sermons, some are swoons. They are acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire . . . These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for 'all the black people I'm tired of losing,' one narrator says." - Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Hayes' writing demonstrates a serious commitment to revising, extending, and advancing American poetry while recording, celebrating, and mourning black American life. These aesthetic and intellectual preoccupations also charge American Sonnets ." -Walton Muyumba, The Los Angeles Times " American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a gift in a fraught moment. These sonnets, existential, political, personal, retain a moral ferocity and urgency . . . Hayes' inhabits the deeply troubling historical moment. But these poems are timeless, by which I mean these sonnets annihilate any difference between past and future." - Faraz Rizvi, The Millions "You will find all of [Hayes's] signature pleasures and provocations in this new collection: dense lyricism, associative word play, the political, the interpersonal, explorations and interrogations of race and gender and sex and the body and violence and power and history and time." - Kenyon Review "Pain and poignancy collide in this collection of seventy sonnets . . . perhaps the takeaway of Mr. Hayes' work here is that what lies in between is heart - a pounding of poems that stays in the chest long after the pages are set down. These poems stay with me, they linger, they poke and ask questions, and this is the book's success. What more can one ask from poetry?" - Cameron Barnett, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Hayes addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America's penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of his signature rhythmic artistry and wordplay . . . Inventive as ever, Hayes confronts America's myriad ills with unflinching candor, while leaving space for love, humor, and hope." - Publishers Weekly "With this incomparable collection, Hayes joins others in taking on the sonnet, reinvigorating its form and reimagining the possibilities of American literature." - Booklist, "Hayes addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America's penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of his signature rhythmic artistry and wordplay . . . Inventive as ever, Hayes confronts America's myriad ills with unflinching candor, while leaving space for love, humor, and hope." - Publishers Weekly, "Hayes' writing demonstrates a serious commitment to revising, extending, and advancing American poetry while recording, celebrating, and mourning black American life. These aesthetic and intellectual preoccupations also charge American Sonnets ." -Walton Muyumba, The Los Angeles Times " American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a gift in a fraught moment. These sonnets, existential, political, personal, retain a moral ferocity and urgency . . . Hayes' inhabits the deeply troubling historical moment. But these poems are timeless, by which I mean these sonnets annihilate any difference between past and future." - Faraz Rizvi, The Millions "You will find all of [Hayes's] signature pleasures and provocations in this new collection: dense lyricism, associative word play, the political, the interpersonal, explorations and interrogations of race and gender and sex and the body and violence and power and history and time." - Kenyon Review "Hayes addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America's penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of his signature rhythmic artistry and wordplay . . . Inventive as ever, Hayes confronts America's myriad ills with unflinching candor, while leaving space for love, humor, and hope." - Publishers Weekly "With this incomparable collection, Hayes joins others in taking on the sonnet, reinvigorating its form and reimagining the possibilities of American literature." - Booklist, "Hayes addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America's penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of his signature rhythmic artistry and wordplay . . . Inventive as ever, Hayes confronts America's myriad ills with unflinching candor, while leaving space for love, humor, and hope." - Publishers Weekly "With this incomparable collection, Hayes joins others in taking on the sonnet, reinvigorating its form and reimagining the possibilities of American literature." -- Booklist
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-057838
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Penguin Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
23

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