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I Don't Write About Race
I Don't Write About Race is a poetic exploration of identity, as told through apologies, anecdotes, and admonitions. An autofictional cosmogony of a girl who has been alive too long, this collection of poems represents both the absolute culmination and the ultimate failure of the author's lifelong search for identity.
As its speaker becomes ever more estranged from conventional sources and modes of meaning and kinship, delving from relationship to bar, bar to relationship, from one city, partner, and job to the next, juggling relationship between families both biological and chosen, she becomes intimately acquainted with alienation. I don't write about race engages ever more intimately with one of the fundamental questions of literature: what do you do when you wake up again, alone, and somehow still yourself?
As its speaker becomes ever more estranged from conventional sources and modes of meaning and kinship, delving from relationship to bar, bar to relationship, from one city, partner, and job to the next, juggling relationship between families both biological and chosen, she becomes intimately acquainted with alienation. I don't write about race engages ever more intimately with one of the fundamental questions of literature: what do you do when you wake up again, alone, and somehow still yourself?
94 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2018
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June 26, 2019
“Is that all there is?” is mentioned in one of these poems and it was the moment when the collection truly clicked for me. A person who goes back and forth in life, has so many questions, and who faces hardships that some may identify with and others may very well not. June guides the reader (although often not gently) in a way that forces you to question these interactions in life with people different from yourself as well as those who are close-mind and critical.
*This may not be my most coherent review but it is a truly thought provoking collection of poems from a unique, funny, heartbreaking, and important perspective.
*This may not be my most coherent review but it is a truly thought provoking collection of poems from a unique, funny, heartbreaking, and important perspective.
November 4, 2018
Thoughts soon!
October 18, 2018
After I finished the book, I could only really think to wish that she took more time for herself writing this. But maybe there is no time to do that.
March 12, 2023
a must read for all lgbtqia+ individuals. for all that are mixed race for all that are allys. this will sit with me for the rest of my life.
November 6, 2024
The are poetry collections that move the reader and those that force you to look deep inside and question every single thing you'd thought you knew ...this one belongs firmly to the latter category.
July 29, 2025
its really disconcerting to see someone so obviously talented pointed and poetic weighed down bu the scaffolded beats of the time.
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