Freedom House

Name: Freedom House
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: KB Brookins
ISBN: 9781646053346

Author: KB Brookins

Narrator: KB Brookins

Unabridged: 1 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 06/06/2023

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins’ formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different “rooms”. The speaker isn’t afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more — all while using humor and craft. What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on February 16, 2023

Brilliant. Unapologetic. Fire. This book will leave burn marks on your fingers and heart, and it will be so worth it. This debut full-length collection by KB is everything I hoped for and more. I took their Freedom House workshop about a year ago, and I am thrilled to see how it takes shape in this......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on October 26, 2023

This was a solid collection of poems that played with form and pop culture in really interesting ways. I’d recommend this collection to anyone, but especially to people of color and queer folks!!......more

Goodreads review by Vincent on September 09, 2024

Love this and LOVED the resume poem! The line ‘pronouns: whatever gets me the job’ was a whole M O O D......more

Goodreads review by Simplymegy on July 21, 2025

I wish I had enjoyed this more- but I guess this book had a target audience and that wasn’t me. I felt angst, anger, and grief through her words, although at times it seemed like word salad rather than poetry. 2.5 ⭐️......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 26, 2024

I finished this over a month ago and I am still thinking about some of the poems. I really loved it and feel sure I’ll have to revisit it sometime soon.......more