Candid in his courage and craft, Paul LaTorre’s Disappearing Boy pulls apart the burning spaces of language and body where identity and desire struggle in wars. LaTorre writes, “Boys become men / who vanish altogether” to reveal, in poetry that soars and survives by uncanny reckoning, the unseen and unsayable acts through which masculinity is too often performed. These poems, both primal and contemporary in voice, pull back all artifice. These poems ask us not to look away from our own vanishing. –Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Mule and Pear