A review by ajchurch
Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall

5.0

I loved this! I have a complicated relationship with my blackness, I don’t exactly know what it means all the time, just that it’s something I am. I feel disjointed sometimes and so I read. And reading parts of this weirdly felt like home? Felt like my bones were styling into a foundation that was there all along. I liked this a lot, liked the way he mixed AAVE with I guess “classical”(??) English. I highlighted the entire poems, and consistently the ends of his poems contained lines that made me go “damn”.