Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

6 reviews

jacksons_books_and_music's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Profound, lyrical, visceral, enlightening, and moving poetry. It sheds light of the predatory prison system and its long-lasting impacts on those it incarcerates and their families.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Gun violence, Genocide, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Torture, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Kidnapping, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Rape, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

mfrisk's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I will admit poetry is not something I typically pick up so I’m not surely I fully understood each and every poem in this book however the redacted poems in particular stuck out to me and were incredibly powerful. This is a book about incarceration and it’s wide reaching impacts and how we can continue to fight against them. Highly recommend everyone gives this book a try. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Torture, Murder, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

an interesting book of poems that offers a revelatory look into america's fcked up incarceral system and the prison industrial complex. most revealing, however, is how the impact of the aforementioned reverberates in individual lives, creates intergenerational trauma, and affects black men's lives both in and after prison. there are many arresting lines and phrases here, but my fav thing is perhaps the redaction poems, which are very unique and impactful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Police brutality and Excrement

eslsilver's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

edie_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality