Profound, timely, and a must-read in 2021! What an incredible anthology by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman. There are so many powerful lenses with which to view a slice of 2020 that we're still experiencing and reverberating from. Since I read this earlier in the year, I can't stop thinking about this! Thank you for this powerful and important work!

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