
This is a good book of poems that covers topics like romantic relationships, American racism, and family life. The stories June Jordan tells are very personal, but they’re also mad relatable. In them, she’s disappointed by a lover or remembering the dead or thinking deeply about her mother. Each one is full of genuine feelings.
[…] It was finally something familiar in a foreign, Southern city. I’d read her poetry collection Things I Do in the Dark and her novel His Own Where and knew her well enough to know to get anything with her name on it […]
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