num_pages: 102
description: The Crown Ain't Worth Much Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com Willis-Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems analyzing race gender family and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us. Terrance Hayes writes that Willis-Abdurraqib bridges the bravado and bling of praise with the blood and tears of elegy. The poems in this collection are challenging and accessible at once as they seek to render real human voices in moments of tragedy and celebration.
language: English
title: The Crown Ain't Worth Much
publisher: Button Poetry