Harare Review of Books

320 pages.

First published on Nov 8, 2022.

Genre: Poetry (/instapoetry)

Thank you to Andrews McMeel Publishing and to NetGalley for this ARC.

If you’ve ever come across Chapata’s Twitter account, then you’ll know what to expect from this collection: affirmations, in the form of a few lines, much white space, references to your healing and your path, how to relate to other people, angels, manifestation, and other lightly spiritual things. This is really never for me, but I find myself always trying to get instapoetry (I really don’t, but I do see the appeal).

This is middling, because it really is mostly affirmations, and very little else (so, not quite poetry, in my opinion); but it will definitely appeal to fans.