Vietnamese-American writer and poet Baonguyen Huynh Nguyen reviews Mythical Man for DVAN.

_{What is clear in David Ly’s Mythical Man is that his use and abandonment of Western tropes, uses of the erotic and sensual are all intentional in the making of Ly’s monster. What he does well is be honest with the reader and himself. Ly bares it all to interrogate the sexual racism in queer spaces, and the all too relatable pursuit of self-hood in the 21st century. Nothing is missed in Ly’s collection and once read, the reader will feel the visceral words simultaneously cutting and embracing them.}

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