All I Know About a Heavy Heart Is How to Carry It is a celebrated revival of the absorbing language of an observant writer who raises and struggles with the right questions that the heart requires answering. Chisom Okafor, recipient of the Jacar Press New Voices Award, does not spoon-feed simplicity but poetically restores chaos and complexity as a universal way of seeing and writing that demands so much more but offers even more in return. This collection of poetry interrogates what it means to be human and vulnerable through raw fierce and unflinching energy that sweeps the reader through unexpected passages and dislocations.

    — Jaki Shelton Green.