One Potato Review

Yes, this is a book about race, but the wavy, wild enthusiasm emitting from these childlike illustrations hint at even wider aspirations. Because sometimes the pictures we make of ourselves have very little to do with the color of paint that we’re using, in fact often they’re pictures of dogs and trees and houses and onions and more-or-less abstractions. Here is a puzzler, and an invitation:

“Be with me inside the
me of me,
all made up
of stories present, past, future
some true to life
and others all
fun and fantasy,
all the ways I imagine me…”