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peachani's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
My rating is solely based on my enjoyment, not on the skill displayed. Now that I'm far removed from school, I think I've lost the ability to deeply analyze poetry. Anyway, my favorite portion was the erasure poems. They call to mind collage art or remixes, two art forms that are very dear to me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Grief and Racism
Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Slavery, Violence, War, Death, Medical trauma, and Police brutality
michaelion's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Oh yeah, this book is goonna go down in history for, at the very least, almost perfectly capturing the feelings we had during the moments we lived through between November 2019 and August 2021. I'm always a sucker for time travel in movies and tv, but mixing the distant past with the present? More than that, using the direct words of the past as if they were said in the present?! Future historians, it's all here. It's all there. It's all real. It made me uncomfortable a couple times but that's because the wound is still fresh. As said in some of the poems, it's still ongoing. I'm sure I'll read this again in 10 20 30 60 years with a familiar hindsight and vague rememberance, and probably feel as sick to my stomach as I feel now. But, not a bad sick. A sad sick. Mourning sickness. We'll never not mourn, even if we forget. But with this book at least a part of us will always remember.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Police brutality, Death, Medical content, Racism, Confinement, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia
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