PRAISE FOR UNIVERSE IN THE KEY OF MATRYOSHKA:

"These poems are important. Useful. Life rafts...a rare voice of male body dysmorphia...It is the care and generosity with which these poems are crafted that make this book so necessary."

- Lauren Zuniga, Author of The Smell of Good Mud

"These poems are simple, yet wild beasts that sing...These words dazzle with their unmoving, unrelenting fierceness...May we all aspire to be so solid."

- Danez Smith, Author of [insert] Boy

"...a poet of exceptional craft and image who charts 'the shame of survival' utilizing autobiography and confession to undress a deeper truth about masculinity, education, love, and loss...a cartographer of nostalgia..."

- Hieu Minh Nguyen, Author of This Way to the Sugar

"...there is an unmistakable sense of time, a weight of time, a spell of time, in these poems of incantation and intimacy...a wonderful debut."

- Ilya Kaminsky, Author of Dancing in Odessa