Patricide Hanif Abdurraqib good luck in the real

good luck in the real world is a hard-earned and swervy testimony

Jared Singer wears love and loss on his skin

you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you

Flock of Seagulls

so lovingly rendered in the backdrop of West Perrine

Patricide Hanif Abdurraqib good luck in the realDave Harris, 2019. From the writer of the films SUMMERTIME and FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, Dave Harris's stellar poetry debut takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity. Patricide weighs those complexities and how they impact a lineage of black boys who fight to become men in the image of their fathers. More than just a book about fear or death centered on being black in America, Patricide illuminates the internal struggle to be the best