A review by crystalisreading
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte

challenging emotional hopeful

4.5

A luminous poetry collection, with a gorgeous  audio version. the poems in the first 3/4 of the collection kept me mesmerized, in both word and voice  the last quarter dragged a little for me.  Afro-Latina, Dominican. New Yorker. Black. Bilingual. Woman. Child of immigrants and survivors. Descendant of enslaved people. Unapologetically weaving all these identities and experiences together into bold, luminous poetry.

thank you to #Netgalley for an ARC of #PlantainsandourBecoming ...even though I ended up listening to it instead.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Police brutality