Hood Vacations

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Michal MJ Jones' debut </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hood Vacations</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling - an unflinching recollection of Blackness queerness gender and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: We were mighty beautiful once in golden dust. The speaker of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hood Vacations</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> tells of magic: of praying mantises bathtub octopuses Black ghosts & bringing back rainbow soap colors. It is a book of passing - as through and on. Hop on in.</span></p>