Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

15 reviews

hanhantap's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism

ferns80's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Grief

Minor: Fatphobia

yinflower's review

dark funny reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia

savvylit's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

This collection was a mixed bag for me. Some poems were excellent; for instance, Jones writes about grief with crystal clarity that instantly reveals his deep familiarity with the subject. There was also one poem about the ephemerality of a summer tomato that I keep thinking about. Other poems were less engaging and personal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Police brutality, and Racism

emmettdakool's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Grief, and Death of parent

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Classism, Death, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Mental illness

relf's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

Dark and funny and vulnerable and honest. I don't know how Saeed Jones does it, but I found the deep grief and, yes, feeling of apocalypse in progress somehow comforting. I will come back to these poems.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism and Homophobia

edilund's review

dark emotional funny reflective tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Racism

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

nstew16's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading for the 21st century.

A poetry collection that intricately examines grief, specifically the grief of a son and also grief as a Black individual in America. It also tackles topics of queerness and living through the 2020 pandemic.

The repetition and recurring sequences of poems in this collection is similar to Thomas King's 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. Both with keen observations/critiques on world issues and social justice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Death