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A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
Apr 11

A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

2 stars Okay collection filled with passion and perspective. I think this is best experienced when performed by the poet himself. Reading it, it was often difficult for me to get the right rhythm and flow of each piece. For me personally, I didn’t really connect with the poems. There were wonderful descriptions and images…

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Sing, Aretha, Sing! by Hanif Abdurraqib, Illustrated by Ashley Evans
Apr 3

Sing, Aretha, Sing! by Hanif Abdurraqib, Illustrated by Ashley Evans

3 stars A lovely picture book that goes beyond Aretha Franklin’s career as a singer and delves into her activism and faith. Abdurraqib’s text is lyrical with some lovely images created. He focuses not just on Franklin’s most well-known song, but how it inspired others to act and its continued effect in bringing people together…

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