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bibliorama's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
How do you review a poem or a book of poems? I have no idea.
I don't read enough poetry to feel like I could give a decent review, so take my star rating with a grain of salt.
I liked many of the poems in this collection. The standouts to me were "Kal" "Partition, 1945: my grandfather steps off a train in Jammu & Kashmir" "How we left: Film Treatment" and "Other Body"
I don't read enough poetry to feel like I could give a decent review, so take my star rating with a grain of salt.
I liked many of the poems in this collection. The standouts to me were "Kal" "Partition, 1945: my grandfather steps off a train in Jammu & Kashmir" "How we left: Film Treatment" and "Other Body"
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Xenophobia, Blood, Bullying, Racism, Sexual content, War, Body shaming, Child death, Hate crime, and Islamophobia
ridaaamina's review
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75
If They Come For Us is a beautiful poetry book written by an Immigrant Desi Muslim writer whose parents died as a consequence of the India-Pakistan partition & grew up in an orphanage in the United States, away from home and nothing to go back to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Sexual content
Moderate: Racism
outcrye's review
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Islamophobia, and Violence
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexual content and Misogyny
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