{"product_id":"american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin","title":"American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrence Hayes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe black poet would love to say his century began\u003cbr\u003eWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually\u003cbr\u003eIt began with all the poetry weirdos \u0026amp; worriers, warriors,\u003cbr\u003ePoetry whiners \u0026amp; winos falling from ship bows, sunset\u003cbr\u003eBridges \u0026amp; windows. In a second I'll tell you how little\u003cbr\u003eWriting rescues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. Over seventy poems, each titled 'American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin' and shot through with the vernacular energy of popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his way between touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and creation, tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of the enemies of the good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Sonnets builds a living picture of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression which define the early 21st century. It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48379403960457,"sku":"9780141989112","price":80.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9780141989112.jpg?v=1789894717","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}