Python with a Dog Inside It 

This collection gets into your bones and stays. Rooted in marsh and mud, these poems keen with a somber beauty. Here is an unflinching family portrait, a tender collage of boyhood, and ultimately an ode to what home makes of us, all tuned to the particular frequency of McDonough’s potent lyric. This is a gifted young poet and a beautiful debut.

–Safiya Sinclair, author of How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award