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In “Final Poem as Tidalectic Elegy,” he writes: Williams’ eloquence is matched only by his fierce, historically informed cadenced address that blends the stately with the polemical language of a legal writ. Mutiny is a touchstone book, one where Williams achieves a haunting eloquence that blends the political moment in deep contemplative literary dialogue with Black identity in the past. William’s Mutiny (Penguin, 2021) was a 2022 American Book Award winner and a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. These two publications follow their first book boy (YesYes Books, 2014), which won innumerable awards, including the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Their 2017 National Book Award for Poetry Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press) was a seminal achievement. It was followed by his equally skillful 2020 The Malevolent Volume Reed is a wordsmith who creates complex soundscapes of language that interweave Black cultural referents with a sensory barrage of audacious images, making strange and disturbing what feels classically aesthetic.ĭanez Smith’s Homie (Graywolf, 2020) was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Justin Phillip Reed’s Indecency (Coffee House, 2018) won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry, deservedly so. Jones’ 2022 Alive at the End of the World is a stunning achievement as well.

Called “brilliant, unsparing” and “visceral and affecting” by NPR, his book was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and took the 2015 Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Saeed Jones’ Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press, 2014) reconstructs a childhood past with a lyric intensity not seen since Jean Toomer’s Cane during the Harlem Renaissance. Black, Queer, Trans, and Millennial: A New Generation of American Poetry: Part IIIĪnd to pick up where I left off, a few more poets of this generation particularly stand out.