![]() 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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