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A review by tjonesnp09
Urbanshee by Siaara Freeman
4.0
Ms. Siaara Freeman brings us her poetry in an “uncut” fashion. Raw and openly honest!
It helps us understand her growing up after her father’s murder. The struggle of finding herself versus being what everyone else wants her to be as a black girl, as a black woman. Quite a few of her poems touched me deeply, as I to have suffered losses. Remembering our Elders in “A Lineage of Language”. All lines we cherish and remember while sitting around our Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents and their “catchy” but true proverbs that BEGAT other proverbs. “Every goodbye ain’t gone, and every shut eye ain’t sleep.”
“Self” Struggles gives us the notion to look inside ourselves… as individuals we are our own nemesis..
“Wasteful”, definitely depicts a heavy heart.
Despite growing up without a father, drugs and murder being a part of her everyday surroundings in Cleveland,, she definitely shows that an “Urban Girl Exists” and through self-love, can beat the odds!
Thank you NetGalley and Button Poetry for access to this literary work of poetry. Although I am not clear on the “retelling of fairytales”, Siaara Freeman brings it, and you better be ready!
It helps us understand her growing up after her father’s murder. The struggle of finding herself versus being what everyone else wants her to be as a black girl, as a black woman. Quite a few of her poems touched me deeply, as I to have suffered losses. Remembering our Elders in “A Lineage of Language”. All lines we cherish and remember while sitting around our Aunts, Uncles, and Grandparents and their “catchy” but true proverbs that BEGAT other proverbs. “Every goodbye ain’t gone, and every shut eye ain’t sleep.”
“Self” Struggles gives us the notion to look inside ourselves… as individuals we are our own nemesis..
“Wasteful”, definitely depicts a heavy heart.
Despite growing up without a father, drugs and murder being a part of her everyday surroundings in Cleveland,, she definitely shows that an “Urban Girl Exists” and through self-love, can beat the odds!
Thank you NetGalley and Button Poetry for access to this literary work of poetry. Although I am not clear on the “retelling of fairytales”, Siaara Freeman brings it, and you better be ready!