The cover of Hardly Creatures: Poems by Rob Macaisa Colgate, featuring a red salamander crawling across a broken golden bust

“Never before have I experienced a book of poems that cares this firmly and boldly, this inventively and fully for its communities and for its reader… I felt my entire world shift” — Chen Chen

“Full of vulnerability and humor and lyrical play… Hardly Creatures is a beautiful space I want to return to again and again.” — Jane Wong

“Brilliant and innovative… a visionary new voice in poetry” — Tin House

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