"In Come Kingdom, Derrick Harriell chronicles a Black man's journey toward an ever-elusive American Dream. These poems are anchored in the trenches of personal crossroads ranging from child conception to substance abuse and racism. Throughout the book, the Black male psyche and body are continuously placed on trial, examined, and reexamined. Whenever reconciliation seems to be near, conflict finds a way to disrupt a family's picket-fence dreams. Written in four sections, the collection pays homage to various Black musical icons-including Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, and Nipsey Hussle. With spirited vulnerability and gritty musical lyricism, Harriell reveals the stakes and hauntings of relentless generational traumas. A tour de force of outcry and courage, Come Kingdom confronts our ever-changing social, political, and musical climate. But more intimately, it follows a speaker and his partner's desperate attempts to become parents again"--