Listen Up!
by Zoe Angelsey

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Book Review: A Good Collection for Spoken Words
Summary: 3 Stars

I happen to like Spoken Word poetry, when it's done well. There are posers out there, but some people understand the use of words and the sounds those words make, influencing one another. Williams is particularly adept at this, but I found other poets in this collection that moved me as well.

Willie Perdomo's "Notes for a Slow Jam," Suheir Hammad's "Nother Man Dead," and Ava Chin's "Piano Concerto" are some of my favorites. But it is Williams, in his three part "Children of the Night," that really sold this book for me.

Not every poem, or even every poet, in this collection captures my imagination. Even so, it is a good collection to own, and better to share.

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