Description: Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Theo LeGro's unflinching debut explores chronic illness, inherited grief, and the brutal, tender intimacy between the body and self.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: 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