[2] The book, published in 2023, concerns many themes including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic, police brutality and anti-blackness writ large, and community.

"[3] It also interfaces with many social, political, and historical figures, as well as artists, whom Shockley found inspirational including Dannielle Bowman and Alma Thomas.

[4] The front epigraph has quotes from Aretha Franklin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and others.

Dean Rader, in conversation with Victoria Chang for The Los Angeles Review of Books, stated "I admire Shockley’s marriage of the political and the playful.

"[7] Electric Literature called the book "a visually exciting, linguistically dynamic, and altogether thrilling shapeshifter of a collection".