“At turns mixing and remixing form, lineage, and landscape, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s debut unveils a world of tender witness, beginning with the street, moving through history, and ending with reclamation of wild possibility. Here is a collection itchy to witness all the lives that have formed it. Brotherhood. Family stories. Hard music, rhythm. The lines bob, weave, and juke. They gap. Restless, this is the stuff of multitudinous life. Dense, replete with daring imagery, elegiac, celebratory, urgent, this astonishing collection startles you with its virtuosity and refuses to be binned down.”—Cathy Linh Che, author of Split