Don't Let It Kill You: Poems by Theo Legro

Don't Let It Kill You: Poems

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Don't Let It Kill You: Poems by Theo Legro

Persea Books

Don't Let It Kill You: Poems

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Winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry

From hospital rooms to dive bars, Don't Let It Kill You by Theo LeGro confronts the complexities of loss and mortality with ferocity and wit. These poems test the tension between survival and surrender, healing and destruction, where the body is a site of betrayal and forgiveness, pain and longing, where the frailties of the flesh lead to a haunting tenderness toward the self. With language that refuses to flinch or flatter, these poems tells the truth about sickness: How boring it is. How brutal. How sacred. The poems do not seek to inspire. They do not resolve. They testify. Aching and defiant, Don't Let It Kill You refuses to yield or comply, weaving between intergenerational trauma and incurable illness with biting lyricism to explore where desire and fear collide as proof of life and life is its own feral, sacred kind of rebellion.

Book Details
Publisher:
Persea Books
ISBN:
9780892556397
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
64
Authors:
Theo Legro
Published Date:
2026-06-02
Language:
English
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About Theo Legro

A queer Vietnamese American poet and Kundiman fellow, Theo LeGro earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, with poems appearing in The Offing, Plume, diode, and Raleigh Review. The debut collection Don't Let It Kill You (Persea Books, 2026) won the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Based in Brooklyn, LeGro read widely across New York City. The book appeared posthumously following LeGro's death in 2026, and Kundiman established a scholarship fund in LeGro's name to support queer and disabled writers in its classes and retreats.

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