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spookyaz's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Hate crime, Suicide, Police brutality, and Racism
betweentwobookends's review
adventurous
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funny
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inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
3.5
lisa_doe's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
oddreyloo's review against another edition
2.0
i’m so sorry…i didn’t really like this book. the language was just a little Too Much for me. maybe i need to read this man’s poetry though, because he quoted a bunch of poets that i Do like!! (ocean vuong, layli long soldier, etc.)
anyway,, happy pride month!
anyway,, happy pride month!
iris_krauze's review against another edition
challenging
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4.75
Billy-Ray Belcourt is an icredible Poet, and this memoir/work of art brought me into a raw, and beautiful journey with him, meditating on being Queer and Indigenous, and existing in a world where those aspects of your being are intimately tied with aspects of a racist colonial world and history that is invested in your un-being. I feel that this book is really a necessary read for many (most) Canadians, and I feel so grateful this exists!
Hard to say more about this other than the fact that it is so beautiful and I am in awe with this person who poured so much of themselves into this piece. I am in love with the way that Billy-Ray Belcourt reassigns blame and shame away from Indigenous youth and towards Canada for suicide epidemics amongst Indigenous youth, stating (in much more eloquent words) that as it stands, the sky may seem more open than the world you currently exist in, and that is not to say that suicide should be encouraged, but that the world needs changing.
Hard to say more about this other than the fact that it is so beautiful and I am in awe with this person who poured so much of themselves into this piece. I am in love with the way that Billy-Ray Belcourt reassigns blame and shame away from Indigenous youth and towards Canada for suicide epidemics amongst Indigenous youth, stating (in much more eloquent words) that as it stands, the sky may seem more open than the world you currently exist in, and that is not to say that suicide should be encouraged, but that the world needs changing.
jake_powell's review against another edition
5.0
Deeply personal, but the author has the tools to draw out from the personal a more universal and very political account of the pains of colonialism and statism. I think only a poet so familiar with reaching for a feeling beyond language, could so effectively push personal experience and political theory together and past familiar bounds.