Beyond Baroque - In his 2018 collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Hayes explores conceptions of blackness, nationality, masculinity, and mediacy as filtered through the sonnet form. All the
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Terrance Hayes Tackles Current Life in “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin” - Pittsburgh Quarterly
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison”]
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