When I think of Norwood House Press, I think about Dear Dragon or other books for preschool aged children. This is what was in my mind when I started reading this book. I soon realized that this was not the case. This book is geared more toward late middle school and high school, but I think that adults should read it too.
This is an anthology of 50 or so poems based on social injustices in the United States. These injustices include discrimination based on color, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, as well as the struggle for equality and justice.
In school, I struggled through all poetry sections in English classes, and I'm pretty sure I made a joke out of them. While reading this book, I loved the free form of most of the poems, which made it a bit easier to read. Some of them, I am still not sure what I was supposed to get out of them, but others made me look inside myself, to see what I could be doing better. Everyone could do better!
Thank you Norwood House Press and NetGalley for the digital ARC of this book, which made this honest review possible.
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