Walker James’s Reviews > What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America > Status Update

I feel like you have to be really into Nathaniel Mackey's poems to appreciate his poems. All his poems, in this collection at least, reference concepts and names and things from his poems. Idk. Maybe I'm missing something. I think I'm missing contexts to appreciate his poems or maybe its the over 40 pages of this book dedicated solely to these multi-page Mackey poems. His are the only poems I've skimmed, wont grab me