![]() ![]() ![]() I want to just quote and quote and could easily end up just pasting sonnets with the instructions to “Read This!” But let me speak to the music of his poetry. I am struggling with how to share my excitement about this collection of poems. Sometimes that limitation frees you and that seems to happen with Hayes because this is a stunning and generous collection of poetry with seventy–yes seventy–sonnets. Then think of going to the corner store where you choose from just three. ![]() Think of going to the grocery store and seeing 100 different kinds of cereal and picking just one. So much of modern poetry is about throwing off those old, formalized limitations, but sometimes there is freedom in limitations. With his new book American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes released a collection of sonnets, American sonnets, that hew to the fourteen-line requirement of tradition, but they are more jazz than baroque. ![]()
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