A review by corvingreene
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This was a beautifully written book that's part poetry, part essay/memoir, by the brilliant Tracy K. Smith. It is a very heavy read, tackling the legacy of racism and white supremacy in the US, and detailing her family history in the country, among other things, and I took a long time to read it, but I also wanted to savor the lyricism of her writing. I listened to this on audio, and it was a great audio book, but I would have liked to see the poems on the page, too.