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solenodon's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma
hannalizzy's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
This was a great collection. Themes of viral infections, endemics, sickness, colonization, racism, Islamophobia, systemic issues in the medical world. The social commentary is firm, clinical, backed up, and powerful but not so heavy handed, making it still really good poetry. I gasped audibly multiple times, there are some amazing lines in this collection. Editing over the HIPPA oath was such a unique and powerful idea. I loved this line in “Anti Body” (which is written sideways and I love that) : “do not bleed in peace. bleed knowing.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Abortion, Medical trauma, Racism, Colonisation, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Religious bigotry
emsan's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Vomit
readalongwithnat's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
3.5
I received a free ARC from Haymarket Books in exchange for my honest review.
It is interesting to read a book of poetry based on the Ebola epidemic while we are still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This collection is dark, but moving, and I think it would be very good on audio.
It is interesting to read a book of poetry based on the Ebola epidemic while we are still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This collection is dark, but moving, and I think it would be very good on audio.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content
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