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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By Terrance Hayes

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Poetry

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE The black poet would love to say his century began With Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset Bridges & windows. In a second I'll tell you how little Writing rescues. So begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. Over 70 poems, each titled 'American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin' and shot through with the vernacular energy of popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his way between touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and creation, tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of the enemies of the good. American Sonnets builds a living picture of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression which define the early 21st Century. It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2018-06-19
Publication Date:
2018-06-19
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141989114
ISBN13:
9780141989112
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
114 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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