The next time someone tells you spoken word poets can't make poems come to life on the page, send them to Danez Smith's [insert] boy, a remarkable debut collection that puts that tired notion to bed once and for all. In these poems, Smith opens the reader to a world of desire, longing, and deep mourning that picks up where his brothers Hopkins and Whitman left off.
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