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In Don't Let It Kill You, the body is both battlefield and witness, speaking through mastectomy scars, lipstick worn to surgery, and the remnants of legacy. These poems move with unflinching clarity through corridors of illness and desire, attending with exquisite care to the strange, quiet moments that live beside survival. They wrangle grief like a live thing, hurling us back into life again and again--refusing false hope while holding a fierce, unsentimental tenderness for the self in all its iterations: whole, broken, and remade.--Kimberly Grey, author of A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing Theo LeGro's poetry does what poetry is supposed to: it tells the truth about the ugly side of survival without ever forsaking the tender beauty of life. Relentless and irreverent, the poems in Don't Let it Kill You transform dive bars and operating rooms, haunted houses and strangers' beds, into thresholds of revelation. A stunning debut.--Hala Alyan, author of The Moon that Turns You Back and I'll Tell You When I'm Home

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Theo LeGro is a queer Vietnamese-American poet and Kundiman fellow whose work has earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. Their work appears or will appear in Blood Orange Review, Brooklyn Poets, diode, Honey Literary, Plume, The Offing, Raleigh Review, and others. They live in Brooklyn.

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