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Hanif Abdurraqib

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by T ...more

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Average rating: 4.5 · 44,680 ratings · 7,384 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.56 avg rating — 15,967 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 4.59 avg rating — 8,980 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension 4.36 avg rating — 6,646 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) 4.46 avg rating — 6,044 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fortune for Your Disaster 4.47 avg rating — 2,980 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crown Ain't Worth Much 4.52 avg rating — 2,707 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vintage Sadness by Hanif Abdurraqib, Hanif Abdurraqib 4.59 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School by Hanif Abdurraqib (Editor), Peter Kahn (Editor), Dan "Sully" Sullivan (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Expanded Edition by Hanif Abdurraqib, Jason Reynolds (Afterword), Eve L. Ewing (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.63 avg rating — 126 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement by Hanif Abdurraqib, Ashley Evans (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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