Becoming is a beautiful debut collection of poetry centering around themes of feminism, sexuality, race, and mental health. Renaada Williams's 100+ poems are short, personal, emotional tributes to the things that make us different and a celebration of all the things that make us the same. A journey through life, love, and loss, becoming reminds the reader that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
***
[you / were the definition of / what a man / father / and a friend/ should be]***
(@AndrewsMcMeel, 19 May 2020, 152 pages, e-book, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
***
***
I'd never heard of the poet before. I like discovering new poets. Overall, I enjoyed the poems in this collection. My personal bug bear is that the poems don't have titles. I like my poems to have titles but this is becoming a common style in modern poetry. The poems are very simple, deceptively so because they deal with far deeper ideas and subjects than you expect at first glance. They were easy to read and resonated on some level with me. Like a lot of modern poetry, the poems are personal as well as universal. I really like the cover as well.
