Anodyne

Great writing using other genres like playwriting to create beautiful, thought provoking poetry.

Thank you to Tin House and NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy!From the talented Khadijah Queen comes another sharply observed, generous and deeply heartfelt inventory of the soul. Ranging from love poems to mental health to politics of NJ Transit, Queen has a way of transforming the ordinary into light and dark, creating quiet spaces of reflection in an often too loud world. I can't do her work any justice other than to say that it acts as an anodyne, or painkiller, for the soul.