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guccinothoochie's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Very insightful and modern poetry book, KB writes in a very contemporary that is enjoyable for poetry lovers
ofbooksandechos's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Transphobia, Police brutality, Grief, and Colonisation
Minor: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, and Mass/school shootings
cgcpoems's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This was a solid collection of poems that played with form and pop culture in really interesting ways. I’d recommend this collection to anyone, but especially to people of color and queer folks!!
robinks's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Picked up this book after listening to Brookins’s podcast episode of Dear Schuyler. This is a powerful collection of poetry, and I loved how both Brookins’s queer/transness and blackness were so present in each piece.
gabybenitez's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Freedom House is such a phenomenal poetry collection that balances pressing themes of transphobia, anti-Blackness, gentrification, and systemic oppression in the south/Texas with hope, humor, and the author’s imagining of a future in which we’re all free. This is simultaneously a collection that is evergreen and a response to the current political times that we exist in today.