Claim Tickets for Stolen People

<b>Honor Book 2023 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards Poetry Category</b><br> <br> In <i>Claim Tickets for Stolen People</i> Quintin Collins embraces a range of poetic forms and registers to show the resilience of Blackness in a colonized world. The tension between mortality and vitality is ever-present whether Collins is charting his daughter's emergence into being cataloging the toll of white violence or detailing the exuberance of community family and Chicago and Boston life. In Collins's hands the world is exquisitely physical and no element is without its own perspective whether it is a truck sheared by a highway bridge or bees working through the knowledge that humans will kill them burn their homes and steal their honey. All goes toward honoring Black grief Black anger Black resistance Black hope-and the persistence of Black love.