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Reviewed on August 23, 2019 | Arts Poetry
In the eponymous middle section of her accomplished, vibrantly subversive new work, National Book Critics Circle finalist Giménez Smith (Milk and Filth) explains "though I was born in America/ I wasn't born American," adding "I became American/ when I…had sex with a white boy/ or when I thought my first/ racist thought." She's already clarified the rough rub of having people project an idea on her (and the "se...Log In or Sign Up to Read More