American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Lib/E
Terrance Hayes
(Author)
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Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Tantor Audio |
| Publish Date | May 14, 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  CD-Audio |
| EAN/UPC | 9781665219327 |
| Dimensions | N/A |
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 received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.
Reviews
Steady cadence and warm tone . . . Hayes's narration elevates this provocative, relevant, and timely collection.-- "AudioFile"
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