"In Bad Teeth, poet Sean Michael Galvin puts our era into words, digging out the ugly heart of masculinity, mental illness and modern life with gut-tightening candor and sneak-attack humor that sublimates them into something viscerally relatable.

Whether reckoning with the wreckage of a schoolyard fistfight, trudging through anxiety and depression with psychedelics, or trying to make sense of relationships and find the higher order of things, these are poems that creep up on you with impossibly spare lines that leave nothing unsaid as they snatch the air from your lungs.

Bad Teeth gives an unflinching glimpse into the cracks in our world and what it’s like to live inside them, a record of our time that leaves you feeling less alone by the final page."