A review by girlreactionreads
Teeth by Aracelis Girmay

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

Pretty much anytime you ask poets about the poetry they love, you hear Aracelis Girmay come up pretty fast. These are deeply rooted poems, grounded in particular times and spaces, with such tangible, material details--and yet so many of them could have been written right now, today, in this moment in time. What stood out to me the most was that all these poems feel like poems of resistance, poems of forward momentum in any circumstance, poems of the world might say no but I'll find my way to yes, just you wait and see. 

My favorite was "Ode to the Watermelon", an old poem about Palestine that could just as surely be a today poem about Palestine. Oh how the river flows, yet stays the same.