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gfox3737's review against another edition
2.0
Omar Sakr has the heritage, backgrounds, and statuses to make him an important voice for a number of poignant topics relating to world events. Unfortunately, Sakr's poetic voice does not allow those attributes to stand out, despite his poems speaking about his Arabic mixed background, his sexual orientation, the plight of Middle Eastern countries, and his own family's traumatic journeys. I wanted this collection to be better than it is.
Reviewed for NetGalley
Reviewed for NetGalley
samanthaisonline's review against another edition
3.0
"on the hunt for villages
where a boy can love a boy & still be
called son"
I really wanted to love this book but it just wasn't for me. Poetry is a very subjective thing - something I love will be hated by someone else, and vice versa. I appreciated the messages of the book, about queer identity and xenophobia and religion. But the prose itself was not my thing.
I did really enjoy the poems "Fridays in the Park (or how to make a boy holy)" and "Birthday."
(Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.)
where a boy can love a boy & still be
called son"
I really wanted to love this book but it just wasn't for me. Poetry is a very subjective thing - something I love will be hated by someone else, and vice versa. I appreciated the messages of the book, about queer identity and xenophobia and religion. But the prose itself was not my thing.
I did really enjoy the poems "Fridays in the Park (or how to make a boy holy)" and "Birthday."
(Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.)
mina_m's review against another edition
4.0
*3.5
Especially liked the How to destroy the body slowly-poems and the Nature Poem.
Especially liked the How to destroy the body slowly-poems and the Nature Poem.
jessicacwrites's review against another edition
3.0
This was good. This was really good. It was so powerful, so touching. I am so grateful to have been sent a copy of this collection because it truly has changed my perspective.