[insert] boy (Kate Tufts Discovery Award)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Winner Lambda Literary Award Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globes Best Poetry Books 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Finalist Norma Farber First Book Award Poetry Society of America. "The poems of INSERT BOY have need of the bodydesire it and lament its mortalitybut over and again they assert Smiths seemingly religious belief that every sound the body makes every word and wail is only possible through connection to some other plane of existence. This is a lovely voice-driven book singing high notes sharp as a switchblade."Jericho Brown "Danez Smith lays down the gauntlet for all of us to speak our deepest truths with more elegance more ferocity and almost more beauty than a reader can bear."Gabrielle Calvocoressi