9 Top audiobook books like American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas…

"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Look book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • read for school
  • the united states of america
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3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
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4. The New Testament

By: Jericho Brown

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The New Testament book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • african american

5. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

6. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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7. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • politics
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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8. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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9. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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10. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
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11. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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12. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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13. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
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15. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • read for school
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • 21st century
  • african american
  • audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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16. Pig: Poems

By: Sam Sax

4.32

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more

Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

17. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

18. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

Similar categories in Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • african american
  • audiobook
"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

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19. Concentrate

By: Courtney Faye Taylor

4.58

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic deb… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • african american
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20. Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more

Similar categories in Nate Marshall's Finna book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
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21. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Bluff: Poems book and Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

  • poetry
  • audiobook

11 Best nonfiction books like American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

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Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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10 Top contemporary books like Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

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The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

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Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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