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Author:

Hayes, Terrance, author.

Title:

American sonnets for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

91 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--21st century.
POETRY / American / General.
POETRY / American / African American.
Poetry.

Other Titles:

Poems. Selections

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.
"In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. These poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Penguin poets

ISBN:

0143133187
9780143133186

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1007553806

LCCN:

2017057838

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UKPD911 -- Carlisle Public Library (Carlisle)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OOAX232 -- Clinton Community College Library (Clinton)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)