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2018 NBA for Poetry winner. This collection focuses on life as a gay black man in the US—the anxieties, fears, worries, and experiences. In the afterword he acknowledges being depressed during the writing, which I suspected during my reading, but doubted my own interpretation. I haven‘t read all of the 2018 finalists to have a favorite, but can say this was a deserved win. #poetry