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4.74 AVERAGE
4.74 AVERAGE
dark
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slow-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
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funny
hopeful
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From “What Joy?”: Watch me turn to stone / or a pillar of salt, other words, for still, silent. Other words for weathering / the way we love. / We are nothing if not forgiving.
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Dysphoria
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Colonisation
challenging
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hopeful
reflective
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I could not put this book down.
As much as I wanted to be slow and deliberate reading Brandi’s poems, I had an undeniable urge to read every last one. Even now in the wake of having finished, I feel compelled to pick the book up again.
Brandi writes with ferocious honesty and precision. They confront illness and colonial violence in a way that is searing and clear and yet manages to maintain a level of tenderness few others could manage to juggle simultaneously. “The All + Flesh” is a triumph: a book I will likely need to replace at least once in my lifetime from re-reading it until the binding falls apart.
As much as I wanted to be slow and deliberate reading Brandi’s poems, I had an undeniable urge to read every last one. Even now in the wake of having finished, I feel compelled to pick the book up again.
Brandi writes with ferocious honesty and precision. They confront illness and colonial violence in a way that is searing and clear and yet manages to maintain a level of tenderness few others could manage to juggle simultaneously. “The All + Flesh” is a triumph: a book I will likely need to replace at least once in my lifetime from re-reading it until the binding falls apart.