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Hanif Abdurraqib: The Crown Ain't Worth Much (2016, Button Poetry)

The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable …

Review of "The Crown Ain't Worth Much" on 'Storygraph'

and we are only 19 and not yet saddled with the burdens of our parents except for in the middle of some nights, when the loneliness slides itself along our necks like a crucifix and we gasp for anything familiar,


isn’t it funny how art most imitates life when a black body is being drained of it? how easily we can imitate that which is never coming back again to claim its space?