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“Hayes set himself the challenge of writing political poems in the guise of love poems. Each one is distinct: Some are sermons, some are swoons. They are acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire . . . These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for ‘all the black people I’m tired of losing,’ one narrator says.” – Parul Sehgal, The New York Times“A diary of survival during a period when black men are in constant danger . . . This is one of the deepest accounts I have read in poetry of what it feels like to have one’s body fetishized as an object but criminalized as a force.” – Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker“The right poetry collection for right now . . . Hayes’ writing demonstrates a serious commitment to revising, extending, and advancing American poetry while recording, celebrating, and mourning black American life. These aesthetic and intellectual preoccupations also charge American Sonnets.” –Walton Muyumba, The Los Angeles Times“American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a gift in a fraught moment. These sonnets, existential, political, personal, retain a moral ferocity and urgency . . . Hayes’ inhabits the deeply troubling historical moment. But these poems are timeless, by which I mean these sonnets annihilate any difference between past and future." – Faraz Rizvi, The Millions“Hayes reinvigorates a classic form . . . [he] examines what it means to be an American, to belong, and how it feels to be haunted and hunted by violent racism . . . expect to be challenged on nearly every page.” – Elizabeth Lund, The Washington Post “Overwhelming in every sense. Overwhelming in its brilliance, yes, but also overwhelming in its pacing, its style . . . The book, despite its breadth and clever turns, is a confrontation . . . His poems are like the slow and steady picking of a lock, until the door handle clicks.” – Hanif Abdurraqib, Poets and Writers"You will find all of [Hayes's] signature pleasures and provocations in this new collection: dense lyricism, associative word play, the political, the interpersonal, explorations and interrogations of race and gender and sex and the body and violence and power and history and time." – Kenyon Review "A wild work, effervescent and despondent, Hayes’s collection of sonnets reminds us that the mastery of time is one of poetry’s important functions, though sonnets only buy it back in hasty fourteen-line bursts.” – Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, "The Poetry I was Grateful for in 2018"“[Hayes] speaks with urgency and authority, bearing witness to the absurdities and cruelties of the present moment . . . [American Sonnets] doesn’t just combine style and substance; style becomes substance . . . These poems reminded me what poetry is capable of: of being revelatory and inscrutable all at once, of speaking truth to power—but speaking it slant.” —Tara McEvoy, The Guardian“Pain and poignancy collide in this collection of seventy sonnets . . . perhaps the takeaway of Mr. Hayes’ work here is that what lies in between is heart – a pounding of poems that stays in the chest long after the pages are set down. These poems stay with me, they linger, they poke and ask questions, and this is the book’s success. What more can one ask from poetry?” – Cameron Barnett, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Hayes addresses this marvelous series of 70 free-verse sonnets to his potential assassin: a nameless, faceless embodiment of America’s penchant for racially motivated violence. The poems are redolent of his signature rhythmic artistry and wordplay . . . Inventive as ever, Hayes confronts America’s myriad ills with unflinching candor, while leaving space for love, humor, and hope.” – Publishers Weekly“With this incomparable collection, Hayes joins others in taking on the sonnet, reinvigorating its form and reimagining the possibilities of American literature.” – Booklist
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About the Author
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
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Product details
Series: Penguin Poets
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; 1st Edition edition (June 19, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143133187
ISBN-13: 978-0143133186
Product Dimensions:
5.4 x 0.3 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
23 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#19,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Not since Kim Addonizio’s Tell Me has a book of poems excited me as much as American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Like Addonizio’s book, American Sonnets. . . contains many poems that achieve Emily Dickinson’s definition of poetry. Kinetic, musical, brutally honest, and deeply human, many of the poems do knock off the top of one’s head. One of the wonderful attributes of this book is that at the beginning of each sonnet the reader has no idea where he/she will arrive, for each poem is a journey that Hayes takes the reader and himself on, perhaps not knowing where he himself will land at the end.The sonnets are full of surprises, whether they be self-examinations, discussions of some of Hayes’ heroes, or wonderful excoriations of the man who calls himself President. What Hayes accomplishes in fourteen lines in each poem is magnificent. I know—superlatives and hyperboles, which are rarely deserved. This book does deserve everything positive it will undoubtedly receive: it’s unique, individualistic, smart but not boring, delightful, stunning, hypnotic, snidely humorous—you name it—and made me want more. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece.
what i marvel most about the poems by terrance hayes, is, probably, the manic energy at which they are read, his ability to sustain prosody at all costs, and, most of all, his inexhaustible inventiveness.the back-cover remarks let us know that these poems were ‘(w)ritten during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency…’ having read them, with attention to nuance, insinuation and suggestion, except for one poem, i found nothing to link these poems to the trump presidency, unless taken in consideration are the range of emotions hayes employs. but how are these any different from the uses of hip-hop idiom, invective, and the need to rise above stereotype by juggling in the air fear, anger and love used by young black poets say, over the last twenty years?if you are politically persuaded and your social consciousness is stirred, more power to you. but don’t do so at the price of overlooking hayes’ dazzling wordplay and skills as a poetic raconteur. on more than one occasion, he has mentioned the work of wanda coleman, a poet who seemed to have a treasure trove of words, not big words, but every day words, words never recycled again and again, a rarity for poets. for poets, repetition is a staple. you can sense a newness in the way hayes works, how within the confines of poetic form, he makes several forms of his own making. using seventy sonnets, slyly giving the same name to each sonnet, listed in the index by the first line, he divides them in five groups of fourteen poems, keep in mind there are fourteen lines in a sonnet to appreciate the symmetry fitting to the tradition of american poet, donald hall, his baseball poems constructed on a series of nine to conform with the innings of a game.within his form, hayes has his own game with poetics. followers of surrealism may want to read the five grouped first lines in the index as five bonus poems. in each of the five groups one line is repeated ‘but there never was a black male hysteria.’ or consider the eponymous title with the word ‘past’ read as a noun as a way of situating the poet’s past as the poet’s traditional past:The black poet would love to say his century beganWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actuallyIt began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunsetBridges and windows.and: Orpheus was alone when he invented writing.His manic drawing became a kind of writing when he sentHis beloved a sketch of an eye with an X struck through it.He meant I am blind without you. She thought he meantI never want to see you again. It is possible he meant that, too.as for his future assassin, i leave that person or thing, as i leave what political sludge can be dredged from his poems, to other readers.suffice it to say, i enjoy the poems of his twin past, whether chasing with him all those literary whalers in:I thought we might as well sing the fables of the seaor the depth of feeling of the boy explored in:One of the most amazing things about me isI know how to cut my own hair. I learned how to do itAfter my father moved away.contained in these american sonnets. mr hayes is heading a reformation in american poetry.
Wow! This was my first time purchasing and reading sonnets for fun instead of as a literary assignment. This book was easy to devour. I really appreciated the tones and expressions from the author. Not everyday I see African American colloquialisms embedded into complex sonnets.I read a couple passages to my husband, who is not a reader, and even he wants to read this book. Bravo!
I'm a huge fan of Wind in a Box and Lighthead, in particular, but have been amazed by all of Hayes' books, until now. These feel rambling and undistinguished from each other and lack the tension and fire and insight one finds in his other books. These also feel way more self-conscious.
Great read, dense, slippery, challenging. Hayes does it again. I predict a Pulitzer. If you have me Dr read Hayes before, it is a great start.
To have a form and a lens through which to look at the history of the U.S., of poetry, of African American choking down the iambic pentameter is a gift Hayes brings to us.
Tons of amazing sonnets that are a fresh and contemporary twist on an old style! Recommend it for English teachers currently teaching their Invisible Man units.
Amazing poet
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