REVIEW | The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

AUTHOR: Hanif Abdurraqib

GENRE: Poetry

ISBN: 1943735042

RELEASE DATE Jul 19, 2016

PAGES: 102 PAGES

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

★★★

This is a collection of city life in the United States. It includes stories of the hardness Hanif encountered growing up and the things he went through as an adult. Analysis of gender, race, family, and love. It’s more uplifting than I expected.

Throughout the collection, I was impressed by the imagination of Hanif. He uses metaphors wonderfully and vividly, and some whimsical imagine in his poems are developed beautifully and I really enjoyed them.

However, I wasn’t blown away by the collection, so I gave it a 3/5 rating.