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mari1532's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
I am so lucky that my library has a copy of this book available to read. I have followed Vaid-Menon's social media accounts for a while but was late to the game in picking up their written work. They are a beautiful, emotional, moving writer and I felt a wide range of emotions while reading their poetry. Vaid-Menon's ability to create imagery and empathy with their words is truly breathtaking. I read several of the poems multiple times. Highly recommend.
Graphic: Death, Dementia, Body shaming, Grief, and Transphobia
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic
arsenic_'s review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Minor: Medical content, Colonisation, Death, and Transphobia
nagev's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Graphic: Death, Racism, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Transphobia
imrereads's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
4.5
Graphic: Transphobia and Death
moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
5.0
I would rate this higher if I could. I finished this collection feeling changed. I felt profoundly moved and seen and seeing. Some experiences felt like they wrote a poem out of my own feelings, while others I can not possibly have known, but their words wrapped me in that situation so tightly I couldnt help but feel for them (feel with them?). I know this is what poetry does and I feel this with so much poetry, but this collection left me feeling even more. I don't know how to properly articulate it. This is a very short collection, but every poem is so powerful, it makes sense exactly as it is. This hits on gender, disability, greiving, several are even about COVID, and SO many are about love (loving friends, loving strangers, loving yourself -- how sometimes these can all be the same).
Moderate: Death and Transphobia
Several poems talk about the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantinesomeonelikeblue's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Transphobia, Racism, Medical content, Hate crime, and Grief
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