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What is unique about Terrance Hayes’s collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin?

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Terrance Hayes’s 2018 poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin contains 70 sonnets with the same title (that of the book), which were written immediately after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president in 2016. Political in theme, the poems address such issues as racism, police brutality, and white supremacy.