William Evans, the award-winning poet and co-founder of the popular website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable collection of poetry that explores themes of legacy, dreams, and the traumas passed from generation to generation, delving into the everyday life of a Black man in suburban America today. In "We Inherit What the Fires Left," the award-winning poet William Evans launches a powerful new collection that examines the experience of race in America's suburbs and the dreams and traumas passed down through generations. Evans' boldly intimate, wise, and emotionally honest voice captivates in these necessary, electrifying poems. This eloquent collection explores not only the composition of these legacies but also the toll that the bearer of such legacies must pay, as well as the costs demanded of the body and spirit. Evans writes passionately from the perspective of the marginalized, offering an unflinching examination of what it means to be a Black father to a daughter in predominantly white spaces and the struggle to build a home and future while carrying the weight of the past. Yet, through beautiful and quiet scenes of family life with his daughter or in reflective contemplation within himself, Evans offers words of hope to readers, proving that resilience can ultimately flourish even in the face of prejudice. Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hanif Abdurraqib will find a brilliant, fresh talent to add to their lists in William Evans.