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jacksons_books_and_music's review
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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.
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
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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.
Graphic: Violence, Racism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Torture, Murder, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
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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.
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Police brutality and Excrement
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