The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first
full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city
life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com,
Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems,
analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us
together even as it threatens to break us. Terrance Hayes writes that
Abdurraqib "bridges the bravado and bling of praise with the
blood and tears of elegy." The poems in this collection are
challenging and accessible at once, as they seek to render real human
voices in moments of tragedy and celebration.