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commaflirting's review
emotional
reflective
3.5
This is honestly a lovely chapbook and is full of anecdotes that I can empathize with (as a child of an African).
buer's review
5.0
Full disclosure: I know Omotara, so I'm a little biased, but you don't need to know her to love her poetry.
James' writing is visceral, beautiful, and shocking. Her descriptions of love, sex, growing up, and trying to navigate her relationship with her mother are vivid and relatable - even when the described moments are far outside one's own experiences.
From being thematically dark to blindingly bright, James has created something worth reading and rereading.
The end of one of my favorites:
I thought he was magic, when he was just
the
wand
itself.
I was the fucking magician.
Buy it. Read it. Love it.
James' writing is visceral, beautiful, and shocking. Her descriptions of love, sex, growing up, and trying to navigate her relationship with her mother are vivid and relatable - even when the described moments are far outside one's own experiences.
From being thematically dark to blindingly bright, James has created something worth reading and rereading.
The end of one of my favorites:
I thought he was magic, when he was just
the
wand
itself.
I was the fucking magician.
Buy it. Read it. Love it.
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