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Build Yourself a Boat

Build Yourself a Boat is a 2019 poetry collection by Camonghne Felix, published by Haymarket. It is Felix's debut full-length poetry collection.

Reception

Build Yourself a Boat was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. It was also a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Open Book Award.

Reviewing the collection for The Kenyon Review, Ari McMullen described the book as formally attentive to revelation, withholding, and self-assembly.

In The Rumpus, Emily Pérez wrote that the collection explores the tension between self-reliance and isolation, and discusses personal and societal harm in relation to Black womanhood.

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