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Somehow only his third collection (counting a chapbook), Jones's latest is yet another masterly work, though sung in a distinctly different tenor. Jones (author of the multi-best-booked 2019 memoir How We Fight for Our Lives) has always been a keen interrogator of identity—what it means to be Black, to be a man, to be gay, to be Southern—and in many ways this latest effort continues those threads from his multi-award-winning, multi-award-nominated Prelude to Bruise. But where Prelude to Bruise peered into a personal past, excavating exper...Log In or Sign Up to Read More