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kkellz19's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
collins1129's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
tnagumo's review
5.0
A tour de force. The passion and the vulnerability. May need to revisit another time.
avisreadsandreads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Violence and Racism
jukaschar's review
3.0
Mostly raw and angry, sometimes delicate, always highly emotional poetry. I must admit I was a bit surprised and taken aback by the frequent cursing.
In general I liked the poems. I feel like it did open up my horizon, so that's a good thing. Personally, I can at the moment relate most to the theme of motherhood, so I enjoyed everything related to childbearing, birth and being a mother and found the radicalism of Chin's writing to be a breath of fresh air.
In general I liked the poems. I feel like it did open up my horizon, so that's a good thing. Personally, I can at the moment relate most to the theme of motherhood, so I enjoyed everything related to childbearing, birth and being a mother and found the radicalism of Chin's writing to be a breath of fresh air.
lifeinpoetry's review against another edition
4.0
edit:
I've been thinking of reclamation of identity in adulthood. For example, transracial adoptees who visit birth parents in adulthood or travel to the country they or their birth parents were originally from. While I'm still wary of certain aspects of the uglier parts of reclamation (see: DNA analysis making people feel bold in their use of slurs) that's not this so I'm retracting that earlier critique.
I've been thinking of reclamation of identity in adulthood. For example, transracial adoptees who visit birth parents in adulthood or travel to the country they or their birth parents were originally from. While I'm still wary of certain aspects of the uglier parts of reclamation (see: DNA analysis making people feel bold in their use of slurs) that's not this so I'm retracting that earlier critique.