Reviews

Day/Break by Gwen Benaway

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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This was absolutely gut-wrenching and provided scathing and brutally transparent commentaries on so much: rape, colonization, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, hypersexualization of transfemme bodies, and more. I am so grateful to Gwen Benaway for sharing her work with us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Colonisation, Transphobia, Sexism, and Misogyny

leadpal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

slickestgecko's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

bookwormadventuregirl's review

4.0

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kaitlinshares's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

liteartha's review against another edition

emotional reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

melissafulton's review

dark slow-paced

2.0

victoria_tsonos's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

bookwormadventuregirl's review against another edition

4.0

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lawrenceevalyn's review against another edition

4.0

This time I think I gulped the poems too quickly. Benaway is writing vivid and intensely personal poems that half match my own experiences, and then suddenly and sharply diverge — it’s almost disorienting, as if I keep forgetting that they aren’t actually about me. But it’s also valuable, I think, to be seeing more of Benaway as a result, and to see the poems more as poems.