A review by venneh
The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed

4.0

Unsurprisingly, another poet whose second collection I am picking up first, and now want to read their first. This is a darkly beautiful collection weaving together the Black experience and horror films, and eventually using the poems themselves to summon a retaliatory Black spirit to exact their revenge. Amazing as a concept collection, and just A++ as individual poems. Coffee House Press will rarely steer you wrong.