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No Parachutes To Carry Me Home Maisha Z Johnson A Razor Geoff Melville Books

I like my poetry clear but deep, charged but artful, hot but cool to the touch. This collection is everything I like and then some, traversing the wide intersection of Trinidadian and American, queer and straight, black and female and nerdy and radical, with fierce grace and the literary craft to carry it. Kwame Dawes is right: this is accomplished poetry, and what it accomplishes, in sixty pages, is a whole hell of a lot.


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No Parachutes To Carry Me Home Maisha Z Johnson A Razor Geoff Melville Books Reviews

This is a book about a young woman learning about herself, her family's past, her sexuality, and the harsh realities of the world she lives in and growing wiser as a result. In many ways, she is an anomaly. Her experiences may be unique but the lessons learned are universal. There is heartbreak here, both giving and receiving. There is new love here. There is a political voice born of the intersectionality only a person like her could experience first hand. Put more simply there is a lot here in this book. It is deep but not complicated, poignant but not sappy, quirky but not self-indulgent. In the end I think perhaps the writer has created her own parachute and her own home in these pages, and she is willing to share them both with us. We should be so lucky.
I like my poetry clear but deep, charged but artful, hot but cool to the touch. This collection is everything I like and then some, traversing the wide intersection of Trinidadian and American, queer and straight, black and female and nerdy and radical, with fierce grace and the literary craft to carry it. Kwame Dawes is right this is accomplished poetry, and what it accomplishes, in sixty pages, is a whole hell of a lot.