boys

Phillip Larkin’s poem, “This Be the Verse,” begins with the line, “They fuck you up, your mom and dad.” Luke Johnson’s chapbook, :boys, recently available from Blue Horse Press, illustrates bravely and unflinchingly the moments that this is true; but it is also full of the miraculous possibilities of boyhood. In the title poem, Johnson …

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