American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Written after the 2016 American elections, this collection treats topics like racism, masculinity, and politics.

It was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for poetry,[1] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for 2018.

Each sonnet addresses contemporary issues of American society and its politics.

and directly addresses Donald Trump in some poems and does not hesitate to mock him, calling him "Mister Trumpet".

"[3] Spencer Hupp of The Sewanee Review sees the collection as a reminder of American suffering, because of racial violence but with hope for a better future: "If this book’s 1,148 uneven but often stunning lines prove anything, it’s that the threat of hate, the hope for personal redemption, and the possibility for reconciliation can be as much alive in art as they are in the culture that creates it.