num_pages: 82
description: 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.
language: English
title: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd