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readingwithkaitlyn's review
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Homophobia, Child abuse, Gun violence, Alcohol, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Suicide, Death, Blood, Car accident, Animal death, and Rape
tirragen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
5.0
Heartbreaking repetition, absolutely beautiful. Cried on a plane reading this—so glad.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Death
Minor: Rape
jayisreading's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
This collection was more bleak than I expected yet touched on the beauty and tenderness found in the world. Skeets unabashedly explores sexuality and its intimacies, these particular poems being visceral, especially how they’re nestled within nature (buffalograss is one that comes back). Many of these poems are also meditations on Skeet’s queer and Indigenous identity, as well as masculinity. Fragmented and experimental, each word clearly chosen with much deliberation and making these poems evocative.
Some favorites: “Tácheeh,” “Love Poem,” “In the Fields” (first and last)
Read for the Sealey Challenge.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia and Racism
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
dark
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
my first book of poems, and a bleak, visceral one that is the very embodiment of "that escalated quickly." eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers is unrelenting in its blunt, unsentimental yet emotionally evocative depiction of the human body--both in its destruction, exploration, and desire; the bleak landscape of the midwest gallup, nm (from which the author is a native) where death and beauty alike abound; and the interaction between and coalescence of both.
the writing stuns me: a poem's or a line's meaning could drastically change w/ just a word or a turn of phrase, the narrative suddenly exploding or--even more admirably--subtly shifts into a violent one. im an unlearned novice when it comes to poetry, so this collection is prolly even better than i can comprehend. a bleak, beautiful, yet ultimately hopeful book of poems that i will def be rereading to mine for initially-missed gems.
the writing stuns me: a poem's or a line's meaning could drastically change w/ just a word or a turn of phrase, the narrative suddenly exploding or--even more admirably--subtly shifts into a violent one. im an unlearned novice when it comes to poetry, so this collection is prolly even better than i can comprehend. a bleak, beautiful, yet ultimately hopeful book of poems that i will def be rereading to mine for initially-missed gems.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Racism
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