- Published: 18 February 2025
- ISBN: 9780143138105
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $44.99
the space between men











- Published: 18 February 2025
- ISBN: 9780143138105
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $44.99
“In this profound and evocative collection, Mia. S. Willis commands each line with a dazzling attention to language—its failures and its gaps, its lyric potential and holy plainspokenness, its politics and cultural specificities—illuminating the spaces between and within all of us. Ranging from imagistic to cerebral, humorous to heartbreaking, these poems trace a journey to self-understanding and self-permission, exploring the inner and outer battles toward building a self—specifically, a Black, queer self—and learning to ‘not be afraid to birth yourself beautiful.’ Willis’ poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is philosophical, and the space between men is a formidable debut.” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro