A review by vanquishingvolumes
Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night by Morgan Parker

3.0

Some of these poems really resonated, while others fell flat because I didn’t understand what they were about in context of pop culture references that I didn’t catch on to. That is by no means a poor reflection on the author - the poems flowed beautifully and clearly had meaningful things to say, but my life experiences growing up in a very white-washed area of the country meant I didn’t understand some of the references that many others understood. If anything, this was a great reminder that I need to continue to seek to understand other people’s life experiences to broaden my understanding of the world.