"Candles are romantic because we understand shadows" This line taken from one of the poems called Trojan in the collection. Poetry has been a strong part of my life. When I was a kid and a teenager I used to write poems myself. I picked up that habit this year and made myself a goal to include more poetry in my TBR. Brown's collection explores topics such as rape, racism on the Black community and the murders of Black people by the police. I did struggle to understand some poems but I know you can give your own interpretation to the poems or even if you understand one line that you do enjoy in poetry I believe it's a succeful attempt on reading poetry.