Reviews

Stones by Kevin Young

nwordsmith's review

fast-paced

4.75

Excellent collection. The pleasing format of the short three lines stanzas. The carefully attention to word choice. The deft handling of heavy subjects in a way that allowed to poems to maintain a lightness and atmospheric quality. 👌🏻

bookgoodfeelgood's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

readergonewilde's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

savvyrosereads's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Extremely thought-provoking and a quick read. The focus of this one is mostly death and dying, but also an examination kin, family, and ancestry. Overall a wonderful read for poetry fans or casual poetry readers alike!

Thanks to the publisher for providing me with a gifted copy of this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

ruby03's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

kellyd's review

reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

beautiful and melancholy

kathrynlangenderfer's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

earlydecember's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism

tracithomas's review

3.0

This cover is fire. I liked what I could understand of this collection and know it’s better than I could comprehend. It just felt hard to click with because I knew Young was operating at a level I can’t. I just didn’t “get” a lot of it. I did love the poem “Joy”. A standout for me. I want to read about Young and this collection and then revisit.

espresoul's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.5