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(On |Un-)Becoming: Poems
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232 pages, Paperback
Published November 18, 2025
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December 2, 2025
(On |Un-)Becoming: Poems
by FreeQuency
Thank you to Button Poetry for the gifted copy! ✨🖤📚
Atlas-Style Review
(On |Un-)Becoming is a striking, introspective collection that blurs boundaries, between poem and confession, self and community, past and future. • FreeQuency writes with a voice that is both fierce and tender, exploring what it means to shed versions of yourself while still carrying the histories, violences, migrations, and inheritances that shaped you.
It’s a book rooted in conversation - with mothers, with chosen family, with younger and older selves. • The result feels like a hybrid of poem, prayer, and personal reckoning, full of fragmentation, rhythm, and emotional candor.
What Resonates
• The way the collection queers and expands the idea of “transition,” refusing to confine it to gender alone.
• Themes of Blackness, diaspora, displacement, and communal memory.
• A refusal to fit neatly into genre or form, very much an anti-disciplinary, anti-box project.
What Didn’t Fully Click for Me
• At times the style felt intentionally disjointed in a way that made it harder to connect to certain pieces.
• Some poems hit deeply while others felt more conceptual than emotional.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars)
A bold, experimental collection with moments of real beauty, introspection, and power—perfect for readers who love poetic hybridity, political lyricism, and work that challenges structure as much as subject
by FreeQuency
Thank you to Button Poetry for the gifted copy! ✨🖤📚
Atlas-Style Review
(On |Un-)Becoming is a striking, introspective collection that blurs boundaries, between poem and confession, self and community, past and future. • FreeQuency writes with a voice that is both fierce and tender, exploring what it means to shed versions of yourself while still carrying the histories, violences, migrations, and inheritances that shaped you.
It’s a book rooted in conversation - with mothers, with chosen family, with younger and older selves. • The result feels like a hybrid of poem, prayer, and personal reckoning, full of fragmentation, rhythm, and emotional candor.
What Resonates
• The way the collection queers and expands the idea of “transition,” refusing to confine it to gender alone.
• Themes of Blackness, diaspora, displacement, and communal memory.
• A refusal to fit neatly into genre or form, very much an anti-disciplinary, anti-box project.
What Didn’t Fully Click for Me
• At times the style felt intentionally disjointed in a way that made it harder to connect to certain pieces.
• Some poems hit deeply while others felt more conceptual than emotional.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars)
A bold, experimental collection with moments of real beauty, introspection, and power—perfect for readers who love poetic hybridity, political lyricism, and work that challenges structure as much as subject
December 23, 2025
I attended the official release of this book, and wow was that a night! FreeQuency has put so much love and labor into this work, and you can feel it. There’s also so much wisdom in here. I also loved the addition of photos. The notes at the end will make you feel all the feels! Definitely recommend!
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