A review by jonscott9
A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

4.5

So many things to say here. I will want to revisit this text every few years 'til I'm released from this mortal coil. After Clint Smith's Above Ground, this was my 2nd straight poetry-via-audio experience. Hanif Abdurraqib imbues his reading with immediacy, gravity and grace. I was left nearly dumbfounded by internal and closing lines in a few of these poems. I went back and replayed entire poems or portions of them. Sometimes I read along in my book while listening to him deliver the phrasings.

Reading this book felt like a spiritual experience, even as it was one in which I learned the life of another person, another background, another set of human foibles and triumphs.