Prelude to Bruise Steve Box But trouble doesn’t wait for

But trouble doesn’t wait for hors d'oeuvres as the boys find themselves with a main course of counterfeiting crooks to crack

imaginary friends

a teenage East African orphan on an errand of murder

Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post

and a little embarrassing

Prelude to Bruise Steve Box But trouble doesn’t wait forBy Saeed Jones. Published by Coffee House Press. Softcover, 124 pages, Prose, 2014. Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." ElevenEleven "I get shout happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."D. A. Powell