Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Homie by Danez Smith

15 reviews

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness

steviel's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Chronic illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Mental illness

racial slurs are used to de-stigmatize and to reclaim.

fieldofhats's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This was not an easy book to finish. It’s less than 100 pages, but it is extremely heavy. Danez Smith is a master poet who knows how to weave humor and dark topics together beautifully, but the heaviness often outweighs the humor in this one. This collection is poignant and relevant, but not wholly enjoyable. That’s not to say this is a bad collection by any means whatsoever — it was just hard to get through. Be thoroughly aware of the trigger warnings for this book before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicide, Classism, Transphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

camillatd's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Some of the best poetry I've read. Heartwrenching, gripping, so so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia

astralfeline's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Slavery, Transphobia, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Homophobia, and Death

Minor: Excrement, Outing, and Violence

lilawsahar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Buy it! Read it! If you’re white, use it to develop some empathy! I’m white and my heart grew ten times the size. Off to go buy their other poetry collectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Hate crime, Mental illness, Grief, and Racial slurs

Minor: Classism, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexual content, Homophobia, Police brutality, Blood, and Gun violence

rlgreen91's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a gorgeous, gorgeous collection of poems.  A dear friend gave this to me for Christmas, and since I had a bit of time between book club selections, I decided to pick it up, with goal of reading a poem a day. I went into it with no expectations, which was a great idea. I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled by the many ways Smith conveyed and depicted friendship and community and grief in the poems.  If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be "acknowledgements," and "self-portrait as '90s R&B video" was the most fun to read out loud.

Revisiting "fall poem" on this Sunday October evening is the best way to cap off this collection.  I'm already looked forward to the next thing I read by Smith. 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Cursing

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Medical content

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Blood

jeremy_bearimy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Wow. A collection packed full of love, pain, and the ways those two overlap. I cried, I snort laughed (sometimes in the same poem), and have massive respect for their skill and intense vulnerability.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

mandkips's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, and Racism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts