“These poems are sitting around the living room drinking brown liquor. These poems be saying shit. These poems invite your gaze because you could never. These poems sweat. These poems know how to treat a man. These poems require no formal education. These poems know God is watching. Nicholas Goodly is not singing the bitter songs of his peers. These poems have joy. These poems are the new cry of a tribe almost extinct.”
—Dante Micheaux, author of Circus
“Calling up from magic and all of the ancient gods of poetry, Nicholas Goodly’s Black Swim is a masterpiece. These lyric poems are relentless, forcing us to see and feel everything beautiful, good, and evil about the world . . . Goodly takes the old stories and turns them completely inside out with language that will make believe that poetry can do anything. I love this book and you will, too.”
—Dorothea Lasky, author of Animal
“Poetry at its finest: probing, delicate, sublime. Each page its own queer ecosystem. Goodly transcends.”
—Alok Vaid-Menon, Femme in Public