"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles
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His National Book Award nominated collection, Fast Animal, threads the journey from youthful innocence to the whittled-hard awareness of adulthood. Along the way it immerses the reader in palpable moments―the importance of remembering, the burden of race, and the meaning of true wakefulness.
Other collections include Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004) and One Turn Around the Sun (2017).

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