Thief in the Interior

Recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist 2017 Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award Finalist 2017 Lambda Literary Awards Winner 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist 2017 Nominee for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry Shortlisted for Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry One of BET’s “12 Must-Read Books for 2016” "This gorgeous debut is a 'debut' in chronology only. . . . Need is everywhere—in the unforgiving images, in lines so delicate they seem to break apart in the hands, and in the reader who will enter these poems and never want to leave."—Adrian Matejka Phillip B. Williams investigates the dangers of desire, balancing narratives of addiction, murders, and hate crimes with passionate, uncompromising depth. Formal poems entrenched in urban landscapes crack open dialogues of racism and homophobia rampan