rollick

Patricia Smith, author of “Incendiary,” called the collection “a rollick, a gut-screech, the unbridled bellow of a Black gxrl, an inscrutable soup that tastes remarkably sharp and feral, like the covetous tip of the poet’s drawn blade. To enter here is to provoke both revolution and revelation, to risk your known life at the feet of a fervid and improbable prophet.”

Worth a splurge: Made from grapes air-dried after harvest until they become raisins, this exquisite dessert wine tastes of spiced orange rind, caramel and roasted nuts, with flavors that continue to rollick across your palate for more than a minute after each sip.

“The varieties of emergency — ecological, psychological, familial, medical — are the half-hidden subject of Kleeman’s novel, burning at the periphery of what begins as a modishly detached rollick through Hollywood and its empty promises.”

Don’t rollick with a President Biden who would have in his cabinet Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago whose city, in full antithesis to Black athletes’ protests of racist policing, suppressed police dash-cam video of Chicago cops gunning down unarmed Black teen Laquan McDonald.

Armed with an exuberantly boyish timbre, his vocals rollick through the album’s melodies with exaggerated leaps and dips.