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The Crown Ain't Worth Much
by Hanif Abdurraqib
Just a really beautiful and haunting collection. The collection runs in an almost-chronological fashion, so it transforms in this almost story-like fashion, as you watch the tone of the poems shift from concerns of boyhood to elsewhere. It's so worth seeing that transformation especially in considering the shifting way of approaching looking death in the face all the time throughout. There are so many poems in this that I loved; the "Dispatches from the Black Barbershop, Tony's Chair." triad was so good, and "When I say that loving me is kind of like being a Chicago Bulls fan" is just. really incredible.