Originally published on April 14, 2021 5:51 am Hanif Abdurraqib left Connecticut in the spring of 2017, after a painful breakup. Now he was back in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. A wounded writer. Perfect. Anger and bitterness have filled many, many library shelves. Except, it was too easy to be bitter, he says. “I don’t really write well when I’m bitter. And so I needed to figure out something for myself that served my writing.” Abdurraqib figured it out by going back to what had once been. In the case of that relationship, it was the hope. Generosity and kindness. That’s “A Fortune For Your Disaster,” a collection of poems that outlived pain.