Description: Exuberant and meditative poems that celebrate the resilience of Blackness in a colonized world and chronicle fatherhood, city life, the natural world, and the persistence of Black love.
Review Quotes: "Reading Claim Tickets for Stolen People creates the feeling one has studying a transcendental sonogram: Collins's poetry brings inner life into focus. Blackness is reclaimed, celebrated, embodied. He can give shape to Barack Obama's tan suit and Jimi Hendrix's guitar. He can be furious, funny, and fatherly in a single poem, with a range as broad as his compassion. This is a marvelous book. Claim Tickets for Stolen People gives shape to our magical, mercurial world." --Terrance Hayes