After storming the scene withStereo(TYPE),the PEN America Awardwinning poet makes his highly anticipated returnwith a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry.

Im coming to you live, Jonah Mixon-Webster announces early on inPromise/Threat,from the corner of Shit Blvd. and Out o Luck St. / with my monkey paws. So begins a three-part journey of a troubled rebirth, one that ushers the reader through all the torment of a Dantean comedy as it climbs unsteadily from darkness to light, navigating an internalized landscape that evokes the Flint, Michigan, of the poets youth.

In the long central sequence, Territory, Mixon-Webster sets the reader in a mirror hall of dreams, where ones nemesis (or ones self) is always lurking around the corner. Violences of the waking life trickle into the narrators sleep as he flees from vision to vision, picking fruit in one dream and eating it in the next. In the books third and final section, as the poet begins to wake, he finds that the real poem is the life Im writing. Mixon-Websters musings turn to love and the often-destructive desires it provokes in us as he grapples with how to carry the burden of a past that threatens to sabotage the future.

These are seeking, supple poems whose forms adapt to contain their transfigured images. What emerges in this daring second collection is a surreal and haunting portrait of life in modern America, where pitfalls hide in every promise.

JONAH MIXON-WEBSTERis a poetand conceptual/sound artist from Flint, Michigan. His debut collection,Stereo(TYPE), won the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University and received a Ph.D. in creative writing from Illinois State University. He is the recipient of the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Center for AfricanAmericanPoetry and Poetics, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the PEN Writing for Justice Program.

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publish Date: March 10, 2026
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780593803066
• Dimensions: 9.4 X 7.3 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds