Finna: Poems

"In Finna, Nate Marshall’s lyrical genius waxes electric: “before we get started we would like to acknowledge that we live on some unceded bones,” Marshall begins in “landless acknowledgment,” the first poem from his sophomore poetry collection, which deconstructs the uneasy relationship of Black Americans to home before understanding that “why you think I call my compatriots/ homies? maybe ain’t no home except for how your beloveds cuss or pray or pronounce.” Turning on an apex of complex craft, imagistic narrative and rhythmic resonance, Marshall’s Finna weaves an intricately detailed tapestry of Blackness, masculinity and society."