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hngisreading's review
4.0
INDIGENOUS, I AM tells a story of healing. It is not linear, nor is it clean. I think that’s what I appreciated most about this collection: how select poems, specifically “It’s Okay” & “It Wasn’t Your Fault” & “The Night She Found Me,” recognize healing as a recursive process, as ongoing.
The poems themselves were straightforward but lovely. There is a lot of growth represented here.
The poems themselves were straightforward but lovely. There is a lot of growth represented here.
neil_yazzie's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
Mention of Sexual Trama.hatiekaskell's review
5.0
This was a really well written collection of poems, and here's why.
First of all, as a white person, extremely educational. There are a lot of poems about being Indigenous (obviously), and in those there is raw emotion, and more feeling based explanations of things Indigenous people experience that we don't or experience less of, like generational trauma.
Secondly, even though I am white, there are still poems that I identify with and find speak to me on a personal level. I'm both a curvier human and a survivor of sexual abuse, so the poems that deal with lack of body positivity and growing to accept it, and sexual trauma, are both topics that, when written in very raw poem format, was fantastic to read.
Moral of the story, this is easy to read, it's a short collection, it's raw and beautiful and touches many topics, and I think everyone should take time to read them.
First of all, as a white person, extremely educational. There are a lot of poems about being Indigenous (obviously), and in those there is raw emotion, and more feeling based explanations of things Indigenous people experience that we don't or experience less of, like generational trauma.
Secondly, even though I am white, there are still poems that I identify with and find speak to me on a personal level. I'm both a curvier human and a survivor of sexual abuse, so the poems that deal with lack of body positivity and growing to accept it, and sexual trauma, are both topics that, when written in very raw poem format, was fantastic to read.
Moral of the story, this is easy to read, it's a short collection, it's raw and beautiful and touches many topics, and I think everyone should take time to read them.
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