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pink_distro's review against another edition
4.0
i don't really know anything about poetry! but i do occasionally like reading poems so i thought this would be a good starting book and indeed it was. eve ewing is great at using sort of magical imagery to give historical events the emotional force that they deserve. short beautiful book
zeozombz's review against another edition
5.0
Short book and very poetic. I found it to be an eye opener to some of the systematic issues that have haunted people for generations. It is sad to know that people moved from the South to find refuge and freedom and ended up finding pain and suffering.
The whole reason this book was so important to make should be eye opening as well. Not much has changed.
I for one enjoyed the poetic offerings this book has as it puts a very real emotion to people’s stories.
The whole reason this book was so important to make should be eye opening as well. Not much has changed.
I for one enjoyed the poetic offerings this book has as it puts a very real emotion to people’s stories.
zellm's review against another edition
3.0
These were good poems, and some of them resonated with me. Others didn't. I would love more historical and contextual information. But this was solid.
leone107's review against another edition
5.0
I appreciate Eve's insight into the 1919 Chicago race riots and how she chose to express it in verse. My favorites are 'or does it explode', 'keeping house', 'Jump / Rope', 'Countless Schemes' and 'upon seeing a picture of a car in a school book'. What a time to reflect on this tragic event with the centennial anniversary of the race riots approaching in July.
theythemsam's review against another edition
4.5
This was more than a book of poems, but rather a poetic and a sad remembering of the Chicago race riots in 1919. It was a beautiful telling of what happened during the red summer in Chicago and the effects it had on Black people mot only in Chicago but America