Hayes has worked with sonnets before, most recently in “How to Be Drawn,” a finalist in poetry for both the National Book Critic’s Circle award and the National Book Award. These aesthetic and intellectual preoccupations also charge “American Sonnets.” His writing demonstrates a serious commitment to revising, extending and advancing American poetry while recording, celebrating and mourning black American life. In his five previous poetry collections - “Muscular Music” (1999), “Hip Logic” (2002), “Wind in a Box” (2006), the National Book Award-winning “Lighthead” (2010) and “How to Be Drawn” (2015) - Hayes innovates new poetic forms and hacks the codes of canonical containers, pimping them up dynamically. Now’s the time for “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” Terrance Hayes’ electric, new book.
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