![]() It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be. 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.Īmerican 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. So begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. ![]() Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunsetīridges & windows. It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, The Wicked Candor of Wanda Coleman by Terrance Hayes (2020) Hayes’s essay on Wanda Coleman, whose influence figures prominently in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Executioner, illuminates his own work as well. ![]() With Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually Chiasson examines Hayes’s form, technique, and subject within the context of current American politics and culture. The black poet would love to say his century began ![]()
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