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joannalouise's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Slavery
bibliocyclist's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
4.0
Does your hair “resist the legibility of the braid”? Does history offer more angels or villains? What are “hush harbors,” and where can we find them? For further consideration, check out Dark Days, a collection of “fugitive essays” by poet, essayist and University of Texas at Austin professor Roger Reeves that dares to delve into the times when we struggle, those when we succumb, and the precarious space in between of “coming into life while drowning” or, perhaps more accurately, while ablaze. Stare deep into “the burning-house-ness of America,” draw the potential shapes that the “fire next time” may assume, and keep alert for signs of the dead who “dance and yelp far beyond their dying.”
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