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    American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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    ISBN: 9780141989112
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    AuthorHayes, Terence
    Pub Date19/06/2018
    BindingPaperback
    Pages112
    Publisher: Penguin Books
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR

    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.