Milk Blood Heat ELLIS TALE nothing will stop him from

nothing will stop him from keeping her safe

and the ghosts that inhabit us even as we carry on

see projected before them memories from their respective pasts

but I don't know if this guy's ever been around anyone before

piled up on a beach once strewn with bodies from the wrecked Vandalia

Milk Blood Heat ELLIS TALE nothing will stop him fromSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN JEAN STEIN AND PEN ROBERT W. BINGHAM AWARDS A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 "A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz,