Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

8 reviews

qqjj's review

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Grief, War, Police brutality, Colonisation, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Genocide

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

A beautiful and timeless collection of poetry. All the references were well-researched, and the parallels to the past that Gorman speaks to are haunting. There were more than a few lines that resonated with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Grief, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: War and Mass/school shootings

ellornaslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Powerful, moving, informative

This isn't just poetry, but a history lesson couched in moving words that will twist you in so many different ways it'll leave you feeling raw with emotions: hope, anger, joy, sorrow. The way Amanda Gorman intertwines the experience of the Covid Pandemic with what has come before is powerful. I learned things I never knew: like how elements of history don't exist in a bubble, but instead are bonded with others. The most shocking was that of refugees desperate to escape the Jim Crow south, WW1, and the Spanish Flu. We are always blaming the innocent for what they did not do, and it is always fueled by hate. Do we never learn?

I can see ways the world has learned, though often it feels like for every step forward these days, we take two steps back. It feels like we're just repeating the past especially right now with all this injustice allowed to be committed by cops/white supremacist groups/nazis/other hate groups, puritanical charades about protecting the children that are misinformation, book banning, and hate -  against Drag Queens, against Trans people, against Immigrants/Migrants/Refugees. I think if ever there was an important time for this book to be read and taught? It's now.

There's definitely a lot to unpack in her words, especially about how even in despair, there's still joy to be found. I suppose there's a great deal to be said about the empowerment to be found as well. About not losing hope, about not giving up, about not being silent. So, even with everything above, losing hope and giving up would be terrible. I do hope that one day people will learn and more of us stand together than apart to continue enacting positive change for the future of the world and the generations to come. I didn't see it during the Covid Pandemic - people content to be selfish instead of staying at home, wearing masks, social distancing, and getting vaccinated even if it meant the deaths of those most vulnerable or their own loved ones - but perhaps this pandemic we're still living through while people bury their heads in the sand will be the one that teaches future generations, and governments, not to make the same mistakes.

One can hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Colonisation, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Racism, War, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Police brutality, and Slavery

I doubt I got every CW so please check other reviews.

mirandyli's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

Amanda Gorman is so talented. This is a beautiful collection of her poems. My favorite was _ _ _ _ _ [gated].

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Classism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Police brutality, and War

pointeshoebookworm's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Slavery, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Hate crime

sophtanda's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed it, it definitely felt reflective of the start of covid and the first lockdown, it was also very interesting as the style of the poems changed making each to feel refreshing 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, War, Grief, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

thereadingnurse2021's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Slavery, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Moderate: Chronic illness, Classism, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

There are many content warnings for this set of poems, but that is because it is a cry for change. How can we ever make the world a better place if we do not first confront the wrongs that have been put into it? Yes, this text hurts. Yes, it will make you angry. But that’s because it’s supposed to. It is meant to inspire action.

liwolf's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Slavery, Violence, and War