A review by jessicah95
I Wore My Blackest Hair by Carlina Duan

4.0

I only ever rate poetry in terms of my personal enjoyment. I don't read a lot of it, and I wouldn't be able to give recommendations if someone came to me asking for 'good' collections. Whilst I am trying to get more into it, I certainly don't have a burning passion for picking all that much of it up. That being said, I would give this one a 3.5/4 stars for both the beauty in the writing and for the fact that I actually understood a fair amount of the poems. Winner.

I Wore My Blackest Hair is a poetry collection that muses on themes of race, familial obligation, cultural expectation, identity, roots and belonging. Feminine and tender, yet primal at times, and rich with myth.

Thank you to Netgalley and Little A for providing an eBook of this collection for review.