An Interview with Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism ... "Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's THE CROWN AIN'T WORTH MUCH leaves me contemplating the meanings of soul: communal soul (peep the breadth of cultural shout outs), rhythmic soul (peep the breadth of sound and syntax), and spiritual soul (peep the breadth of compassion). As titles like 'Ode to Drake, Ending with Blood …Feb 1, 2016 · Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. A version of this article appears in print on , Section D , Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: My First Police Stop . Order ... Nov 13, 2020 - This Pin was discovered by Sara Ruth. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on PinterestFreezeRay Five: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. The first anthology from FreezeRay Press, AGAIN I WAIT FOR THIS TO PULL APART, is based on the theme of musicians in popular culture, ranging from Patsy Cline to Justin Bieber, with plenty of ground covered in-between. When it came time to find an editor who could do this concept justice, it made …by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Yvonne. Jan 25, 2020. 2. Share this post. 4. If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn't Everything I Want Already At My Feet. yvonnejk.substack.com. Copy link. Facebook. Email. Note. Other. Share. If I make it to heaven, I will ask for all the small pleasures I could have had on earth. And I’m sure this …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's "The Crown Ain't Worth Much" delves into the struggles of identity, particularly exploring the experiences of an immigrant who has moved to a new country and grapples with changing their identity while also attempting to retain elements of their previous identity. The collection of poems provides poignant insights into the challenges …The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib; Michael Mlekoday (Editor) ISBN: 9781943735235. Publication Date: 2020-05-15. Hanif 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, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these …Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif, author. Publication date 2017 Topics American essays -- 21st century Publisher Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. 285 pages ; 19 cm "In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether …Hanif Willis Abdurraqib performs "When I say that loving me is kind of like being a Chicago Bulls fan". Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from ...Nov 12, 2016 · Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow. By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. September 8, 2016 / 11:54 AM. LONDON - NOVEMBER 05: My Chemical Romance posed in London on November 05 2005. L - R Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Bob ... I wake up the morning after another award show and I hear the calls surging over the mountains again I hear 'em saying hey boy you know we ain't rupture this country's spine and unearth all its gold for you people to cocoon Abu Hanif Willis is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Abu Hanif Willis and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Hanif Abdurraqib. 8,074 likes · 2 talking about this. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN... May 8, 2017 · Check out Hanif’s incredible debut book, “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much”. Come to Minneapolis, MN, June 2-3 for the 2017 Rustbelt Poetry Festival, hosted by Button Poetry! Tickets are now available! While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out all our books and merch, including books by Neil Hilborn, Danez Smith, Hanif ... SELECTED POEMS "The Summer A Tribe Called Quest Broke Up" in Muzzle "Poems From an Email Exchange" in Medium "The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What A Night)," and "Carly Rae Jepsen – “E•MO•TION” in The Account Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib on why we need ‘What’s Going On’ more than ever right now. By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. November 9, 2016 / 12:29 PM. Gems/Redferns.If they began something like mine.” (Willis-Abdurraqib). This quote closes out the article giving it a relatable feel for other African Americans. ... "My First Police Stop," written by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib , explain who you think is the intended audience and what the main idea (or thesis) is that the author is trying to get across. Share …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is known for Jagged (2021), The Nineties (2017) and The 2000s (2018). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. TV Shows. What's on TV & Streaming Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows …By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. September 23, 2016 / 9:56 AM. In 1991, when Nevermind rattled loudly into the world, I was too young to know music as anything other than a vast collection of sounds ...Hanif Willis Abdurraqib performs "And also the work of Dancing" after Aziza Barnes. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Col...By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. August 5, 2016 / 1:57 PM. There was cable television in my home growing up. It was a luxury for a family that was just getting by, but the type of luxury I imagine two ...By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. February 29, 2016 / 12:56 PM “We speak of heaven as if we’ve been there. As if heaven was a mile away.” ...Hanif Willis Abdurraqib on what punk's fraternity, violence and freedom can feel like as a person of color. By Hanif Abdurraqib. August 10, 2015. Photo by Erez …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Button/Exploding Pinecone (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-94373-504-4. In his powerful debut collection, Willis-Abdurraqib uses pop culture and persona as ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib performs "A Poem In Which No Black People Are Dead". Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the ed...May 8, 2017 · Check out Hanif’s incredible debut book, “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much”. Come to Minneapolis, MN, June 2-3 for the 2017 Rustbelt Poetry Festival, hosted by Button Poetry! Tickets are now available! While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out all our books and merch, including books by Neil Hilborn, Danez Smith, Hanif ... Apr 21, 2016 · By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. April 21, 2016 / 3:26 PM. JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images. Prince performs during half-time at Super Bowl XLI at Dolphin Stadium in Miami in February 2007. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Published November 17, 2015 Perhaps if you were once young and black, or young and brown, but definitely young and Muslim in the heart of a midwestern city surrounded by corn fields, trees, whole stretches of land where you were feared.Fani Taifa Willis (née Floyd; / f ɑː n iː /, FAH-nee; born 1971) is an American attorney.She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta, serving since 2021. She is the first woman to hold the office. Willis investigated the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, which resulted in …Select the department you want to search in ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib . here, the bouquet of bullets. instead find a patch of fresh dirt. and just like that, it is spring again. in this poem, I speak of the grandmother. but not of time’s eager shadow. reaching for her legs. instead, there is no ancestor. that cannot be touched. by a hand four generations younger. in this poem, we ...May 8, 2017 · Check out Hanif’s incredible debut book, “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much”. Come to Minneapolis, MN, June 2-3 for the 2017 Rustbelt Poetry Festival, hosted by Button Poetry! Tickets are now available! While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out all our books and merch, including books by Neil Hilborn, Danez Smith, Hanif ... Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib is testing us. He knows we haven’t been paying attention. He knows we’re running out of time. This sense of urgency is established in the first poem and pushes us through the entire collection. Willis-Abdurraquib exercises control over the breath of his readers like a conductor coaxes notes and rests from an orchestra. …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is from Columbus, Ohio. He is a pushcart nominated poet, and the author of Sons Of Noah, a chapbook forthcoming from Tired Hearts Press in 2014. His poems have been featured in Radius, Vinyl, Freezeray, joINT, Borderline, and other journals that are far too kind. He thinks poems can …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (lahir 1983), penyair dan kritikus musik Amerika; Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri (lahir 1972), Menteri Tenaga Kerja Indonesia ke-26; Abu Hanifah, pendiri mazhab Hanafi; V.M.C. Haneefa, aktor India; Hnif, Azerbaijan; Hanifa Deen, penulis Australia; Hanifa Yousoufi, pendaki gunung Afghanistan; Hanifa Mavlianova, penyanyi Rusia; Sifat & … Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, is being released in 2016 by Button Poetry/Exploding ... Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism has been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, and The New York Times. He has been nominated for the pushcart prize, and his poem …By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. June 13, 2016 / 10:08 AM. Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Children on bikes look on as protesters march for Freddie Gray in Baltimore, April 21, 2015.Two voices in particular jumped out at me: Tracy Clayton, co-host of the Buzzfeed podcast Another Round with Heben and Tracy, and Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, a music writer and the author of a ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow.His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, is being released in 2016 by Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press.The Crown …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and his first full-length collection of poetry, The Crown Ain’t …Hanif Abdurraqib. Released July 19, 2016. the crown ain’t worth much Tracklist. 9.Claudia. 1,588 books. view quotes. Nov 23, 2021 07:46PM. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib — ‘I will survive my grief, amen. I have run into the darkness and arrived in the morning still living, amen. I have made my home...Sep 8, 2016 · By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. September 8, 2016 / 11:54 AM. LONDON - NOVEMBER 05: My Chemical Romance posed in London on November 05 2005. L - R Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Bob ... Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is the author of 2016 poetry collection The Crown Ain't Worth Much (published as Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib), 2017 essay collection They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, the 2019 non-fiction book, Go Ahead in the Rain, on the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, and the 2019 poetry collection A … Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, writer, and dessert enthusiast from Columbus, Ohio. He is the editor of Again I Wait For This To Pull Apart, an anthology forthcoming from Freezeray Press. His work has been published in Radius, Stirring, Muzzle, Vinyl, joINT, Borderline, and various other journals. Get Hanif's book, THE CROWN AIN'T WORTH MUCH: http://bit.ly/hanifcrownBecome a Member for exclusive perks and videos: https://bit.ly/ButtonMemberHanif Abdurr...Feb 17, 2016 · By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. February 17, 2016 / 12:42 PM. To watch Bruce Springsteen step onto a stage in New Jersey is to watch Moses walk to the edge of the Red Sea, so confident in his ability ... Nov 12, 2016 · Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow. By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. September 8, 2016 / 11:54 AM. LONDON - NOVEMBER 05: My Chemical Romance posed in London on November 05 2005. L - R Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Bob ...In an epigraph, Smith writes that his poem is “After Hanif Willis Aburraqib,” a young Black poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. Abdurraqib gained acclaim with his first ...Watch. Home. LiveApr 7, 2017 · Give to The Baffler. $10. $50. Any. And as a 501 (c) (3) organization, we’re as charitable as a church, and certainly more fun. Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. October 18, 2016 / 12:57 PM. The new American Football album begins with a question. Mike Kinsella, his voice as soft as it was when it left us more than a decade ago ...I do not mean the cartoon heart the one that swells from the wolf’s chest when. distracted by a girl wolf his tongue rolling onto the hot pavement. right before the anvil drops from an impossible height and he is crushed. again foiled by a man’s hunger I say heart and mean the. actual heart I saw my heart in the eyes of my mother.By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. September 8, 2016 / 11:54 AM. LONDON - NOVEMBER 05: My Chemical Romance posed in London on November 05 2005. L - R Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Bob ...Read poems by this poet. Hanif Abdurraqib is the author of A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance (Random House, 2021), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography; A …Abu Hanif Willis is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Abu Hanif Willis and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib photo: Mwa410, license cc-by-sa-4.0. Biography. American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He is the author of 2016 poetry collection The Crown Ain't Worth Much and forthcoming essay collection They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017). Link to Wikipedia biography. Source Notes. Sy Scholfield quotes him on Twitter: "Poetry tonight. …"Hanif Abdurraqib’s They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is a penetrating and profoundly timely collection of essays. It is music writing at its sharpest, most perceptive, and most urgent... Most remarkable, perhaps, is Abdurraqib’s ability to perceive and define connections between his subjects, himself, and the fractured, complicated culture in …Laura Lapins Willis has been observing people and writing about them since she was 8 years old. Passionate about community, Laura has decades of experience in the nonprofit sector where she has managed, led, and inspired others to work for the common good. She is the author of the award-winning "Finding God in a Bag of …21K subscribers in the BruceSpringsteen community. Reddit Home of the Greatest Fans of the Legendary Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band!Nov 12, 2016 · Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio. He is a Callaloo fellow, and his first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, is forthcoming from Button Poetry in 2016. Paul Tran is a Vietnamese American historian and poet. His work appears in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, The Offing, and RHINO, which …"Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's THE CROWN AIN'T WORTH MUCH leaves me contemplating the meanings of soul: communal soul (peep the breadth of cultural shout outs), rhythmic soul (peep the breadth of sound and syntax), and spiritual soul (peep the breadth of compassion). As titles like 'Ode to Drake, Ending with Blood …Fabolous Articles and Media Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, his first full-length poetry ... One Clear and Clean Surface on Which to Dance: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib by Karin Cecile Davidson . Poet, essayist, and cultural critic, Hanif Abdurraqib has produced two celebrated volumes in recent years—“The Crown Ain’t Worth Much” (Button Poetry, 2016) and “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” (Two Dollar Radio, 2017). Collections, …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (lahir 1983), penyair dan kritikus musik Amerika; Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri (lahir 1972), Menteri Tenaga Kerja Indonesia ke-26; Abu Hanifah, pendiri mazhab Hanafi; V.M.C. Haneefa, aktor India; Hnif, Azerbaijan; Hanifa Deen, penulis Australia; Hanifa Yousoufi, pendaki gunung Afghanistan; Hanifa Mavlianova, penyanyi Rusia; Sifat & …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio. He is a Callaloo fellow, and his first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, is forthcoming from Button Poetry in 2016. Paul Tran is a Vietnamese American historian and poet. His work appears in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, The Offing, and RHINO, which …Apr 5, 2019 · That's writer Hanif Abdurraqib. This month, we're celebrating National Poetry Month. The 35-year-old Ohio native also takes inspiration from music and the New York City poetry scene in the '60s. Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is known for Jagged (2021), The Nineties (2017) and The 2000s (2018). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. TV Shows. What's on TV & Streaming Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows …Select the department you want to search in ...Hanif Abdurraqib. the poem begins not where the knife enters. but where the blade twists. Some wounds cannot be hushed. no matter the way one writes of blood. & what reflection arrives in its pooling. The poem begins with pain as a mirror. inside of which I adjust a tie the way my father taught me. before my first funeral & so the …In an epigraph, Smith writes that his poem is “After Hanif Willis Aburraqib,” a young Black poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. Abdurraqib gained acclaim with his first ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a Callaloo Creative Writing fellow, a writing fellow at Yale University, and a columnist for MTV News. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. < Previous (Editor’s Note) Next (Melissa Cundieff-Pexa) >“Perkenalkan aku hanif seorang mentor karir yang telah membantu lebih dari +6K pencari kerja dalam mendapatkan pekerjaan impiannya mulai dari perusahaan internasional, perusahaan besar, dan perusahaan menengah. Telah terbukti hanya dalam waktu 1-2.5 bulan, CV dan Linkedln yang telah kureview maupun kubuatkan telah mendapatkan 4-7 …Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib has this way of laying out whatever it is he wants to discuss, then beautifully diving into it and taking the reader in directions they weren't expecting, but that all end up feeling totally right. Seeing Bruce Springsteen in 2016 turns into a meditation on something much bigger than simply seeing a rockstar; Ric Flair, …Hi. I'm Hanif. I write poems. I write Things About Music. I am probably eating french fries.
In-Depth Look: Hanif Abdurraqib – “Watching A Fight At The New Haven Dog Park”. Appreciating poetry is often about patience: sitting with a poem, meditating on it, and re-reading it multiple times. With spoken word, we don’t always get a chance to do that. This series is about taking that chance, and diving a little deeper into some of .... Martinah
Hi. I'm Hanif. I write poems. I write Things About Music. I am probably eating french fries. Feb 9, 2021 · The other one is a superstar that is define by the article wrote by HANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB as an ”The work Zayn does, as I see it, is more in service to the young Muslims reveling in the pleasures of their non-Muslim peers, and the guilt that can come with that. Zayn is an unmistakable sex symbol, covered in tattoos, who sings about love and ... 4 Poems From The Crown Ain't Worth Much. Sprawling river / peeling off the chest / a wet slap / endless summer / not quite drenched to the bone / yet still a burden / how it sits heavy on the tongue / after being spoken / leaving the mouth / a humid storm / becoming the definition of itself / inside you / heaviness in the prison of your body ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. A version of this article appears in print on , Section D , Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: My First Police Stop . Order ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib’s life began in Columbus, Ohio. You can read his poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, from Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, other journals. His essays and music criticism has been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, and the New …By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. June 21, 2016 / 1:58 PM. It is a strange thing to grow up poor, or in any interpretation of the hood, and be in very close proximity to the suburbs — a short walk or ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet and writer from Columbus, Ohio. “houses all the way down” and “dream of a unified undercommons”. “the public pales / and pales …Hanif Ramay (1930–2006), Pakistani politician; Hanif Sanket (born 1958), Bangladeshi television host; Hanif Shah al-Hussaini, Afghan politician; Hanif-ur-Rehman (born 1976), Pakistani cricketer; Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (born 1983), American poet and music critic; Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri (born 1972), 26th Minister of Manpower of Indonesia; See ...Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't ...Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib – Photo credit: Airgo Radio “…jeff got knocked out on east main by a sucker punch that broke up the 4th of july cookout in front of brenda’s hair shop and when he woke up it was a whole foods see that’s why you sittin up here talkin bout you lonely while my rent goin up every month but I still …A poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio, Hanif Willis-Abdurraquid’s work is often described as captivating and soulful. Read more about his work at his website abdurraqib.com or check out his most recent poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much. 4. Aja MonetI do not mean the cartoon heart the one that swells from the wolf’s chest when. distracted by a girl wolf his tongue rolling onto the hot pavement. right before the anvil drops from an impossible height and he is crushed. again foiled by a man’s hunger I say heart and mean the. actual heart I saw my heart in the eyes of my mother.Nov 22, 2016 · By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. November 22, 2016 / 12:33 PM. I grew up an entire world away from most holiday traditions. Being raised Muslim, and not celebrating any of the traditional American ... Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow.Hanif Abdurraqib. Released July 19, 2016. the crown ain’t worth much Tracklist. 9.By Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. June 13, 2016 / 10:08 AM. Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Children on bikes look on as protesters march for Freddie Gray in Baltimore, April 21, 2015.We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. "Willis-Abdurraqib possesses a striking gift for merging pop culture with personal narrative."―Publishers Weekly "THE CROWN AIN'T WORTH MUCH is not so much a book you read, but one you survive―with Willis-Abdurraqib's compassionate, elegiac lyric gently pushing you forward through heartbreak and violence."―Indiana Review. BUY HERE: .