Elia Hohauser-Thatcher's debut chapbook, The Prophet's Toothbrush, explores and deconstructs masculinity, coming of age in Detroit, and familial inheritance through the sacred and mundane. These intense, tough-minded poems offer as many bleak truths as they do opportunities for vulnerability. From this text, a speaker emerges who seeks to do the painstaking work of exploring and rejecting the violent expectations our world places on manhood.