![]() A leader whose metallic narcissism is a reflection To the kind of awe experienced after beholding a reign But only when I read the text in its entirety did I understand that Hayes’s project isn’t so much about Trump’s presidency as about the social and psychological phenomena that abetted his ascent to the Oval Office: America, you just wanted a change is all, a return ![]() ![]() Hayes spent the better part of the 200 days between Trump’s election and the early summer of 2017 writing sonnets, 70 of which make up this collection. To say that Terrance Hayes’s latest collection, American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin (2018), is about Donald Trump’s election is to both identify a vital thread in these poems and to miss the point entirely. ![]()
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