American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes T S Eliot Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful

Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing

these poems won’t repel and may even amuse you

a million silver spiders play dead

—Jeremy Hilton

where Mayakovsky is predominantly regarded as a tortured love poet

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes T S Eliot Richard Osmond's debut collection UsefulA powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of Americas most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trumps America. The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted