tatyanavogt's review

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4.0

3.5 Okay I want to give this a higher rating because of what the book is AND the fact that I did find some new favorite poems and some poets to read more from. I'm so happy to have an anthology of historical black poets since we're often forgotten.

But sadly I didn't connect with a lot of the poems overall even though I am grateful for the collection for the few poems that I loved. I hope we get more volumes in the near future!

genrejourneys's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

empire's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.75

aarikdanielsen's review

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funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

indigo78180's review

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reflective

4.25

While the style and language of the poetry was not always of the greatest interest to me, I think this collection does what it sets out to do, which is to reintroduce forgotten or overlooked Black poets of the past.
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