American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Terrance Hayes

May 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Terrance Hayes

About this audiobook

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.

About the author

Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and How to Be Drawn, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and won the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.