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Omnidawn, 2025.
"This butt-kick of a book, penned by one of contemporary poetry's most insisting demagogues, is grounded by one poem's memorable opening line: i start every story with noticing. In YEET!, that act of witnessing is in turn single-minded, mournful, merciless, hurtful or threaded with black boy joy. As we stumble through a new world where truth is in such short supply, let's be thankful that crawford steadfastly refuses the safety of silence as they confront the crusade to disappear Black history, the villainy of wars, and the battles we fight ceaselessly within ourselves. These are poems that must be confronted and lived—enter their lyric with your mind wide open, and let a consummate witness tell you what they've learned." — Patricia Smith, author of The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Omnidawn, 2025.
"This butt-kick of a book, penned by one of contemporary poetry's most insisting demagogues, is grounded by one poem's memorable opening line: i start every story with noticing. In YEET!, that act of witnessing is in turn single-minded, mournful, merciless, hurtful or threaded with black boy joy. As we stumble through a new world where truth is in such short supply, let's be thankful that crawford steadfastly refuses the safety of silence as they confront the crusade to disappear Black history, the villainy of wars, and the battles we fight ceaselessly within ourselves. These are poems that must be confronted and lived—enter their lyric with your mind wide open, and let a consummate witness tell you what they've learned." — Patricia Smith, author of The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
