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katnortonwriter's review
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Every poem in this book packs an incredible punch. There are a lot of erasure poems, and a few really interesting forms, as well as a few more standard forms.
This was the last of the books I ordered from my sampling of Alice James Books poetry and I'm honestly considering the subscription option... they're representing some incredible voices. I would read more of Candace Williams' work in a heartbeat.
This was the last of the books I ordered from my sampling of Alice James Books poetry and I'm honestly considering the subscription option... they're representing some incredible voices. I would read more of Candace Williams' work in a heartbeat.
ditten's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Striking book of poems that confronts and challenges power and violent structures that uphold racism (anti-blackness specifically), misogyny, and homophobia.
katiemonty's review
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Loved the poem, THEOREM:
“Loss also is an accumulation.”
Every night loses its kiss; every crisis its comfort.
Empty states are real, burning things.
Some other favorites:
FRUIT: Each bite a celebration—a glory of forgetting the blood sown to pick my abundance of fruit
WHEN I WAS 12: “inflicted by these white coats who are paid per trauma”
Enjoyed QUANTA, especially “This is the paradox of wanting
and wanting to know—
even in repose, we waver
between embrace and constraint”
VOWS FOR A HERRING COVE WEDDING AMONGST LOVES AND PLOVERS:
“Love is not found—love is the weaving we do each day”
“Loss also is an accumulation.”
Every night loses its kiss; every crisis its comfort.
Empty states are real, burning things.
Some other favorites:
FRUIT: Each bite a celebration—a glory of forgetting the blood sown to pick my abundance of fruit
WHEN I WAS 12: “inflicted by these white coats who are paid per trauma”
Enjoyed QUANTA, especially “This is the paradox of wanting
and wanting to know—
even in repose, we waver
between embrace and constraint”
VOWS FOR A HERRING COVE WEDDING AMONGST LOVES AND PLOVERS:
“Love is not found—love is the weaving we do each day”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
mixedreader's review
challenging
informative
fast-paced
4.0
I am the Most Dangerous Thing is a book of poetry for poets with its depth and experimentation. There were moments I loved and devoured quickly, and moments I slowed down to fully take in the references Williams brings to their poems. A series of erasure poems, from headlines and legal documents, among other sources, were particularly striking. Williams’s collection is an important reflection on Black ontology and embodied trauma.
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