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A review by meemzter
Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall
4.0
Ironically I picked up Finna because I wanted a quick read. What could be quicker than a notebook-thin poetry collection? But Nate Marshall's poems were weightier than a quick read would allow for, and I sometimes would put this collection down after reading a single poem, feeling like I owed it a little more time.
If Finna was a surprise for how each poem demanded my full attention, it was also a surprise in how much the content related to my life as a linguist. There are more than a handful of poems that I am tempted to recommend for inclusion in our sociolinguistics course. Nate Marshall uses "finna" as a gateway to discuss linguistic discrimination, code-switching, and dialect. Many of these poems are celebrations of Black language and Black linguistic innovation.
An excellent collection of poems. It ended up not being a quick read, but it was assuredly a good one.
If Finna was a surprise for how each poem demanded my full attention, it was also a surprise in how much the content related to my life as a linguist. There are more than a handful of poems that I am tempted to recommend for inclusion in our sociolinguistics course. Nate Marshall uses "finna" as a gateway to discuss linguistic discrimination, code-switching, and dialect. Many of these poems are celebrations of Black language and Black linguistic innovation.
An excellent collection of poems. It ended up not being a quick read, but it was assuredly a good one.