Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

5 reviews

steviel's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Chronic illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Mental illness

racial slurs are used to de-stigmatize and to reclaim.

lilawsahar's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Buy it! Read it! If you’re white, use it to develop some empathy! I’m white and my heart grew ten times the size. Off to go buy their other poetry collectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Hate crime, Mental illness, Grief, and Racial slurs

Minor: Classism, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexual content, Homophobia, Police brutality, Blood, and Gun violence

courtneyfalling's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I saw Danez Smith perform at my college a couple years ago, a set that included some of these poems, so I think that's at least part of why I can hear these poems while reading! They have such an imaginative and even playful conversational tone while also exploring with such care and thoughtfulness very emotional issues. I just really love their poetic style and this collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness

mxpringle's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Blood

lcyarnall1's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Racism, Death, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Suicidal thoughts