Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

5 reviews

readingtotravel's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective

4.5

Beautiful collection. Every poem is warm and inviting and handled with grace -- whether the topic was friendship, loss, Grief, racism, anger, queerness, etc. 

This was my first Danez Smith collection. I'm looking forward to reading more of their work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cursing, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood

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

becksusername's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Racism, Violence, and Homophobia

yellow_star's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Overall this book is basically Angry Poems, and an aggressive theme. But most of it is fair. Like the line "poeming some men's hands off,  they know what they did" (paraphrase not exact words) is aggressive but fair. There is a poem in the beginning about a whole group beating one kid up though so maybe don't have young kids read this. 

There's also themes of racism, bigotry, etc. There are also the  related slurs. 

The nature poems are so fresh! I love the completely new to me imagery for nature.

The poverty poems are also completely relatable. 

I'm not a huge fan of poems that jump all over the place like a lot of modern literary poetry does, but each poem is usually about some topic and mostly continues the same conversation. There's still a little bit of chaotic unrelated subject changes but very little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Physical abuse, Body horror, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Gore, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Slavery

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