This is one of the deepest accounts I have read in poetry of what it feels like to have one’s body fetishized as an object but criminalized as a force.” – Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker “A diary of survival during a period when black men are in constant danger. These poems play with different registers, but they return to lamentation, to annihilating grief for ‘all the black people I’m tired of losing,’ one narrator says.” – Parul Sehgal, The New York Times They are acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire. Each one is distinct: Some are sermons, some are swoons. “Hayes set himself the challenge of writing political poems in the guise of love poems. To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) September 2018Īmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018) ToFloatTrailer from AmericanSonnet on Vimeo.
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