American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a contemporary poetry collection that uses the sonnet form to consider American experience, identity, history, and time. Part of the Penguin Poets series, it offers a focused introduction to Hayes’s distinctive literary work.
About This Book
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin is a poetry collection by Terrance Hayes.
The book centers the sonnet form, placing a traditional poetic structure in conversation with contemporary American experience.
Its title suggests an engagement with time, history, identity, and the tensions carried between past and future.
Published in the Penguin Poets series, this volume presents Hayes’s work for readers interested in contemporary poetry and literary form.
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