CITIZEN: An American Lyric (Shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry; Winner of the 2015 Foward Poetry Prize)

The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much to you – (from “VII”) In a way that sounds obtuse and slightly absurd, I felt unworthy of reviewing this collection upon my first reading. A young Scottish white man forming opinions on the effectiveness of a middle-aged Jamaican-American black woman’s writings on racism (with Read More