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- Camonghne Felix is a rising star associated with Haymarket's very successful BreakBeat Poets cohort, which includes Eve Ewing, Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, Fatimah Asghar, and many others.
- Following on the success of Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, and the ongoing prominence of Black Lives Matter movement, there is a renewed interest in poetry and prose that documents the Black experience in America.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a particularly dark collection of poetry. In one poem there's a line about being all edges, all corners and this is certainly not a smooth ride. With topics ranging from rape to suicide, self harm to drowning, don't expect to relax and feel comfortable. I listened to this, as read by the poet, and it has something about it that make it hard to stop listening to. Of all the collection, the one that stood out for me as being radically different in tone was titled "Imagine" in which she marvels that her younger sister is going to go to university and study something that could well lead to her being an astronaut. The bemusement that her little sister seems to be set on such a different path and the wonder that this young woman was her little sister is so entirely different from the rest.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stunning. I saw myself in and outside of the text.