Status Updates From Under My Skin (Essential Po...

I really loved this. Very bold poetry about the experience of a black gay man living in Canada, without ever resorting to be oversimplifying or feel like reading a laundry list (like a lot of the Tumblr poetry emerging the past few years). Almost every single poem was thought-provoking and had something to say in an interesting way.

This is another book I am reading for my modern literature course and when I picked it up from the university library I flipped through it and started reading a few of the poems still standing there between the rows and rows of books. I was stunned by the directness of the language and the themes and I couldn't wait to go back home and keep reading. It's extremely powerful so far and very daring.