Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Homie by Danez Smith

35 reviews

milliemillz's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

renpen's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Racism

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

robinks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Another powerful collection by Danez Smith. Their poems masterfully combine joy and funny lines with difficult topics and sadness. My favorites, in order of appearance:
- my president
- fall poem
- the flower who bloomed thru the fence in grandmama’s yard
- my b****!
- shout out to my n***** in Mexico
- what was said at the bus stop
- for Andrew
- broke n rice
- waiting on you to die so i can be myself
- my poems
- trees!
- my n**
- notes
- acknowledgments 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Suicide

Minor: Suicide attempt

asolis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Suicide, and Racism

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Racism, Violence, and Homophobia

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Danez Smith’s poetry is reflective of life, and takes a hard look at racism, homophobia, and living with aids. There are a lot of striking lines in this book. I listened to the audio, so although I don’t think I got as much of the poems’ contents, it was fun listening to Danez perform his work. I also appreciated the intro explaining the real title of this collection and why he called it Homie.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Police brutality, Grief, and Chronic illness

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

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I saw Danez Smith perform at my college a couple years ago, a set that included some of these poems, so I think that's at least part of why I can hear these poems while reading! They have such an imaginative and even playful conversational tone while also exploring with such care and thoughtfulness very emotional issues. I just really love their poetic style and this collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness