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sees the collection as a reminder of American suffering, because of racial violence but with hope for a better future: "If this book’s 1,148 uneven but often stunning lines prove anything, it’s that the threat of hate, the hope for personal redemption, and the possibility for reconciliation can be as
68:" (singularized to “American Sonnet”) is also the title of each poem in the book. Each sonnet addresses contemporary issues of American society and its politics. After the 2016 U.S election, the author decided to write political poems. and directly addresses 174: 206: 235: 85:
He raises some old themes in American literature like the cage of masculinity or the relationship between father and son in passages like:
45: 87:“Christianity is a religion built around a father/Who does not rescue his son. It is the story/of a son whose father is a ghost." 19: 240: 118: 230: 142: 48:, this collection treats topics like racism, masculinity, and politics. It was a finalist for the 2018 146: 49: 97: 182: 53: 41: 224: 76: 24: 69: 82:
In the sonnets Hayes deplores the rising violence related to racism in America.
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in some poems and does not hesitate to mock him, calling him "Mister Trumpet".
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much alive in art as they are in the culture that creates it."
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Penguin Books
sonnets
Terrance Hayes
American elections
National Book Award
T. S. Eliot Prize
Donald Trump
Wanda Coleman
The Sewanee Review
"American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin"
"T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist is announced"
Poetry Book Society



"Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump's America"
ISSN
0362-4331
"Review: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes"
Categories
2018 poetry books
American poetry collections
Penguin Books books

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