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American sonnets for my past and future assassin
Book • 2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a 2018 collection of more than seventy sonnets by Terrance Hayes, written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency.
Each poem bears the same title and addresses contemporary issues of American society, including racism, masculinity, and politics.
The collection treats themes of racial violence in America while praising resisters and fallen figures, and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for poetry and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Each poem bears the same title and addresses contemporary issues of American society, including racism, masculinity, and politics.
The collection treats themes of racial violence in America while praising resisters and fallen figures, and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for poetry and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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Mentioned as a collection of poems by Terence Hayes that uses a modified sonnet form in response to the election of Donald Trump.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Archive Episode)
