The Occupation

In these formally assured, richly alive poems, Jay McCoy shows us the body untamed, ‘brimming / with sweat’ and ‘musk-ripe, ’ driven by hunger and need, slipping beyond will and art. I admire these poems for their candor, their exuberant lyricism, their grief, their vibrant, queer vernacular. The Occupation marks the arrival of a brave new voice in American poetry.
–Garth Greenwell