I mean, what does he accomplish by doing this? Is it also a little gimmicky (ph)? I mean, he could've just given the book that title and called each sonnet one, two, three, four, five or the first line of the poem. There are definitely 14 lines per poem, so that's that sonnet form that you may or may not remember from your 10th grade English class. And then, yes, as the title suggests, every single poem is a sonnet. It's really inventive, right? I mean, I can't actually remember another book that does this, where every single poem has the same title for an entire collection. Each one is called "American Sonnet For My Past And Future Assassin" - almost identical as the title of the collection.
SHAPIRO: The most striking thing about this book when you open it up is that each poem has the same title. He now has a new book out called "American Sonnets For My Past And Future Assassin," and here to talk with us about it is our reviewer Tess Taylor.
The poet Terrance Hayes first arrived on the scene in 1999 with a book called "Muscular Music." Since then, he's won a huge number of literary prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
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