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lsparrow's review
4.0
Difficult to choose a clear rating on this book. I enjoyed the themes and what the poet had to say in many of the poems although I found the format and style of writing hard to connect to.
"can you love the me that hates the we
that your I belongs to?"...
"can you love the me that hates the we
that your I belongs to?"...
readwithrhys's review
I really wish I liked this. I really do. I love the other books I’ve read by Joshua Whitehead, but this one isn’t doing it for me, and my brain just doesn’t understand the format of this book :(
jesshooves's review
5.0
The poem “Mihkokwaniy” punched the wind right out of me in a gasp-sob. The entire project of this collection, though, is/should/will be literary canon. So good.
“i want to tell him that the life of a person / is an archive of memory / & when he strangled the life out of you...the last gasping breath you exhaled / held in it little particles / fragments of time.” —from poem “Mihkokwaniy”
“i want to tell him that the life of a person / is an archive of memory / & when he strangled the life out of you...the last gasping breath you exhaled / held in it little particles / fragments of time.” —from poem “Mihkokwaniy”
anniemackillican's review
4.0
A lovely meeting of the organic and the technological, Whitehead includes a beautiful tribute to his late grandmother towards the end of the book, followed by a list of missing and murdered women, girls, and 2S people that made me more than emotional.
Also didn’t expect Trixie Mattel to show up in this book but I love to see it! Thank you Joshua Whitehead for inventing Drag Race
Also didn’t expect Trixie Mattel to show up in this book but I love to see it! Thank you Joshua Whitehead for inventing Drag Race
readingbrb's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation
Moderate: Racism and Murder
Minor: Homophobia and Rape
h0llyr00th's review
medium-paced
4.0
This poetry collection plays with themes but also with written construction. I appreciate the work that you have to do as an English language reader here.