The Short Version: A collection of ferocious, insistent, searing poems, many of them about a young gay black man only ever called Boy. Some are beautiful, others gut-wrenching – but every single one will leave a bruise. The Review: I’ve never been much of a poem guy, you see. Oh, I like Billy Collins, sure. Poe, Keats, some Whitman, Longfellow, of course Shakespeare. My favorite collection up to this point was Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle, which I read in college and was […]

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