Final Slash Boy

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Final Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. Channelling the tropes of s lasher cinema, Mills interrogates survival, gendered violence and the figure of the "Final Boy" as both myth and mirror. These poems are sharp-edged, sexually charged, and formally agile-moving between elegy, confession and cultural critique with electric precision. Through repetition, fragmentation and reclamatory camp, Mills crafts a poetics that is at once vulnerable and defiant, haunted and transgressive. Show more