American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry Named a Best American Poetry Book of the 21st Century (So Far) by The Atlantic 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 "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." — The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of as