Boy: Personal Essays and Poems

BOY is the debut of Da’Shawn Mosley, a gifted young writer, not even yet twenty, whose comprehension of the way we inhabit this world is exceptionally beyond his years. “He has a story to tell,” wrote South Carolina Now, “one that is missing from so many young writers’ life experiences.” In this chapbook of fourteen poems and three memoir-style essays, Mosley examines loss and the act of recovery through the lens of his own adolescence as well as the growth of others. In doing so, he creates a remarkably accessible work of art for an audience who will surely recognize his technical skill and wait restlessly to see what he writes next.