In this hauntingly beautiful debut collection, Hiten Chojer explores what it means to confront the darkest parts of the self and find a way through the labyrinth of the mind. These poems take the reader from the minute physical sensations of a cold, wet winter’s night to the enormous sensational effects of a public tragedy; these poems make room for the emotions and truths of death, loss, racism, mental illness, and ruptured relationships, all while holding space for hope and growth. Full of incandescent observations and lyric musicality, Gods of Anxiety Be Damned is an unflinching journey through pain and questioning to a place of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and love.