A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection
A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021"
A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021
A Reader''s Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection
A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection
-Sometimes,- writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, -everything reduces to circles and lines.-
In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love-teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics-couple with moments of wrenching grief-a father-s life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother-s waist; Freddie Gray-s death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor.
