Comparing books so far

Before this semester began, I was not aware that authors wrote different poems that would connect into a book. Notes from a Divided Country has given me the best understanding of how individual poems connect to create an overall theme. We have read Zami: A New Spelling of my Name which was the most different type of book that we have read this semester. This book was a biomythology of Audre Lorde's life which was a book of facts with fictional aspects. Poems by Phillis Wheatley seemed more like a bunch of random poems thrown together rather than a book like A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Loose Woman, or Seam, that were all similar to Notes From a Divided Country. All of these books of poems have their own themes that overall connect to the whole books, but I think Notes From a Divided Country does the best to connect its theme to nearly all poems in the book. I make this connection because when Suji Kwock Kim uses words to refer to people like she, he, us, them, and we, these words are spoken mainly referring to the same people at the beginning of the book, as in the end as well. What I mean by this is that Kim's theme of family and war is displayed throughout nearly every poem of every section of the book, which I believe is much more recognizable in Notes From a Divided Country than any other books we have read thus far.