Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025
Jack Underwood the poems in Small Pointed

the poems in Small Pointed Things seek to uncover various forms of knowledge while taking aim

including the 2021 Sexton Prize for Poetry from the Black Spring Press Group and the 2021 Winifred Ward Scholarship for excellence in youth drama/theatre from the American Alliance for Theatre Education

ghost mouths hidden inside the mouth you are kissing

it's unearthing the strength it takes to continue to hold one's swagger when multitudinous factors work to make Black lives crumble

Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2025</b><br> Jack Underwood the poems in Small PointedPublished 10th April 2025. A piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves. Framed by the story of escape from a toxic marriage, Chaotic Good focuses on the incremental ways in which power accumulates, shifts and is relinquished within both home and community. Incisive, rigorous and artful, Isabelle Baafi reminds us of the importance of self determination, and how, when we feel most eroded, we might discover what we