A review by pedantichumbug
Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Once you get a grip on the flow of these poems and surrender yourself to their rhythm, the ink on paper will come alive and move you on a visceral level. I guess the best way of truly reflecting grief and trauma in literature is to really tear it all down, to unsettle, and mutilate all language, established forms and conventions. Because death really is unsayable and all those atrocities of colonization and slavery unrepresentable. Still, there is "a story that cannot be told, yet must be told."
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