A Shiver in the Leaves (New Poets of America, 48)

A Shiver in the Leaves is a stunning debut poetry collection that delves into the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man's life in Seattle, grappling with depression, death, love, and desire.

Through vivid imagery and tender vignettes, Hughes explores relationships between family, friends, nature, and the police-state, rendering a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body.

This collection is a wild-ride of poems that concerns itself with love, erotic pleasure, and the pleasures of Blackness, while also exploring the densities of desire and pain.

With reverent and careful imagery, Hughes fashions deeply saturated poems that reckon with the interior self and the exterior world, leaving the reader enlarged, stunned, and complexly bereft.

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