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4.0
curiousquokka's review
5.0
Savored these poems over a few months admiring the structure and the images--mangoes, roofs, the moon...--that connected one poem/poet to the next. It's been awhile since I've explored an anthology and I love the kind of "browsing" feeling I get where it's exciting to hear lots of different voices and discover a poet I have never heard of. Probably my favorite book I've read this year and I will keep recommending the BreakBeat Poets series.
zeinaj's review
5.0
Well-rounded; an insight into the versatility of Muslim life. Heartbreaking and beautiful poems and prose.
courtneyfalling's review
emotional
medium-paced
4.0
This was an incredible and consistently pretty strong anthology, with a whole range of experiences and stories. I found some new, great writing by poets I already loved, and some entirely new poets to admire. I'm definitely going to keep recommending this, especially to feminist and queer Muslim friends.
jasbeingjas's review
4.0
The message that there’s no one way to be Muslim is beautiful. There were a few poems I didn’t really care for but that seems to be the case for any anthology. My favorite pieces were the ones that explored how being Muslim and Black or Muslim and queer intersect. Overall this anthology is a great way to start thinking about those experiences and those different parts of people’s’ identities and what it might mean for them.
venneh's review
5.0
Unsurprisingly fantastic anthology with names that I already know now but are earlier in their careers at the time this was published (Seema Yasmin, Kaveh Akkbar), and plenty of new names I want to follow. Four sections of poetry and one of short essays (or the more prose style poetry). Pick it up.
thealyssa_ann's review
4.0
This was a delightfully large collection of poetry with a wide variety of poets demonstrating so many different experiences and ways of being Muslim. A lot of it went over my head but I also learned a lot and appreciated the variety of style of poetry, some of which verged on being like essays.