Paul Killebrew's third book, TO LITERALLY YOU, is largely concerned with the passage of time and how the sincerity and tenderness of domestic life endure despite greater horrors and "the loop of assemblage / this world so relentlessly / resembles." "We commit crimes / and show ourselves and each other / unbelievable mercy," Killebrew writes, and he's a human rights lawyer, so he should know.

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Paul Killebrew was born in 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee. His books of poetry are IMPERSONAL RAINBOW & THE BISEXUAL PURGE (2023), FLOWERS (2010), ETHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS (2013), and TO LITERALLY YOU (2017), all published by Canarium Books. He currently resides in Maryland with his family.