AN ALIVE BOY, by Jude Armstrong

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. "This is an invigorating collection of breathtaking, innovative forms with an utterly necessary voice. You’re going to want to read their first chapbook because it will be the first of many astounding, evocative collections. Jude is a future poetry star."—Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American"Visceral, vivid, and honest, AN ALIVE BOY by Jude Armstrong flits through the experience of assigned gender and into an internal space filled with introspection. A fleeting but meaningful glance at transmasculine coming-of-age, this chapbook lingers in the dirt of small-town life, asking the reader what it truly means to exist in a space and body that do not feel like home. And yet, there is also a thread of longing, both in the abstract and in its many manifestations. Armstrong writes from his perch in the sky, "bloodshot and staring," to compose both the end and the beginning of a life as it wants to be lived. This collectio