Don't Let It Kill You: Poems

Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Theo LeGro's unflinching debut explores chronic illness, inherited grief, and the brutal, tender intimacy between the body and self.

From hospital rooms to dive bars, Don't Let It Kill You by Theo LeGro confronts the complexities of loss and mortality with ferocity and wit. These poems test the tension between survival and surrender, healing and destruction, where the body is a site of betrayal and forgiveness, pain and longing, w...