Nonfiction / Poetry
Penguin Books; 1st Edition
June 19, 2018
112 pages
5 Stars
The back cover tells us these 70 poems were written during the first 200 days of the immediate past president’s tenure in office. They will grab you, shake you, turn you upside down, and possibly inside out, and you’ll love every minute of it.
Every sonnet has the same title as the book. Every sonnet is different. The poem on the back cover begins, “I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, / Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame. /” He does, eventually, unlock the door and let you out, but you’ll want to go back in to see what’s next.
I must read more of this young man’s work. It is, in a word, Amazing!
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