What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

I will be frank, this review is biased. I am lucky enough to call Desiree C Bailey my fiancée. But, that does not make what I am about to say any less true. It has been years since I've had the patience to sit through a book of poetry, but no matter how many times I read or heard the poems read, reading them again always feels moving. It is an intellectual force of a book, highlighting a tradition of thought and feeling residing outside the west, outside the cranium, and outside the grammatically pure. What Bailey does here is shake the foundation of what it means to think about Black thought. I love it. I have loved every moment of it. I was lucky enough to see various iterations and evolutions of it. It was an immense process and she is a writer of immense fortitude. I cannot wait for what comes next. I am inspired everyday anew. What a remarkable life.

Amazing words, feelings, work of art