Button Poetry, chapbook
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Publisher's Marketing:
Winner of Button Poetry’s 2023 Chapbook Contest, Josh Tvrdy’s Smut Psalm is a queer coming-of-age, equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism.
Smut Psalm’s poems reckon with self-discovery and sexual curiosity–interspersed with “Church Board Interrogation” interludes, which act as a dialogue between a homophobic church voice and a witty, increasingly defiant poetic speaker. Altogether, Tvrdy crafts an intimate, surreal spectacle. Smut Psalm shapes the raw messiness of queer adolescence into its own kind of holiness. Charming and intoxicating, Tvrdy’s Smut Psalm is a strange, sinewy experience that can’t be missed.
