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Reviewed by Tierney Reardon for Readers' Favorite
Confirm Humanity by Kim Mannix is a collection of poetry for the modern day romantic. The poems are divided into three distinct sections - Disturbing the Peace, A Loveliness and Something Like Safety. Mannix experiments with a variety of structures and themes - poems of loss and grief, classic love poems, descriptive verse and shortform prose. The book tackles a question many of us are fearing the answer to today - is there a place for art, poetry and literature in a digital world? When the most human act there is - creation - is streamlined and reassigned to an ever-growing virus of a machine, what is left for us? Internet culture is juxtaposed with a pure love for the natural world; childhood memories are followed up with references to online verification tests.
I thought that Confirm Humanity was overall a gorgeous collection. The language was lyrical and accessible, easy to read but not lacking depth. As Wildfires Push the Border and Lightning stood out to me as particularly strong entries in this book. I found myself thinking of them long after I had read them. When writing about technology’s effect on humanity, it’s usual for the subject to turn depressing and bleak. Confirm Humanity doesn’t do this. There is a clear and strong theme of hopefulness and love that permeates each poem in this book. These poems are highly relevant, and reading them was a generally uplifting and lovely experience. I hope to read more from Kim Mannix in the future.
