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sunflowerhexe's review
4.0
“her daughter learns about beauty discovers nothing surprising” took my breathe away. I’ve heard about the experiences of Black girlhood from friends and college roommates, but whew this hit me in the gut. Stunning work. I read this book, but I need to get the audio version, I believe these works would be all the more stunning in that form.
Favorites: Another Another Autumn in New York, Delicate and Jumpy, The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, What Beyoncé Won’t Say on a Shrink’s Couch, Heaven Be a Xanax, and 99 Problems
Favorites: Another Another Autumn in New York, Delicate and Jumpy, The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, What Beyoncé Won’t Say on a Shrink’s Couch, Heaven Be a Xanax, and 99 Problems
capy's review
3.25
We think we are owed.
Everything, but especially silence.
A secret is during commercials
I am living other lives, sautéing
green vegetables, imagining spring
breeze carry me through the apartment
like a branch, or a painter.
i feel like over a quarter of this collection went over my head but the poems i did connect with were very good, wish there was a deeper analysis somewhere! i love finishing a poetry book and feel like i just worked out
dreamgalaxies's review
5.0
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A wonderful and dark meditation on black American womanhood, depression, life in late capitalism, pop culture layers...highly recommend. I read it twice, some poems 3 times.
A wonderful and dark meditation on black American womanhood, depression, life in late capitalism, pop culture layers...highly recommend. I read it twice, some poems 3 times.
aurea's review against another edition
book didn’t come in time to finish for class. should definitely pick up again at a later date
jacobandthefrogs's review against another edition
5.0
Oh my god what a mind I need to re read this like 80 times
trinityforever's review
3.0
a really fine collection of poems, you can sense the lifetime of lived experiences melding with cultural touchstones, sad truths spoken through a cracked smile interlaced with hope and promise shining through lamentations, beautiful and thoughtful
amanda_y8s's review
5.0
Saw a video of Morgan Parker reading of a piece from this collection and bought it on a whim. Loved every page.