A Year in Reading: Safiya Sinclair

I spent a good portion of the past year working on my forthcoming memoir, , and when I was not editing or revising, I found myself craving mostly books of poetry, longing to dive into those worlds and words that were completely separate from what I had been working on, aching to turn my mind to poems again. While exploring my to-be-read piles, I found the most pleasure in returning to some of the already-read books that I love most, a kind of homecoming for my year in reading. Here are some of the books, old and new, that I read this year, and the ones that lingered with me long after