Threat Come Close, Four Way Books, 2018 · Wherein I am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers · Digital Exhibits

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Threat Come Close, Four Way Books, 2018

The covert art for Threat Come Close features a young Black man with a cast on his left arm seated in a metal folding chair reaching up to angle a heat lamp towards his upturned face. The lighting is dark, and he is cast partly in shadows. The title of the book Threat Come Close is in black all caps, and Coleman's name is listed in the bottom in white text.

Coleman’s debut book won the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry. Early mentor Diane Seuss wrote: “Whitman-like in its expansiveness, with Dickinson’s ferocious interiority, this collection represents the ravishing next step in American poetry.”

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