Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

9 reviews

readingbrb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual content

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Physical abuse

astrangewind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

I wanted to like this book more than I did. Don't get me wrong - Brown's poems are striking and evocative, effortlessly linking sound and form and style to experience. In theory, this should appeal to me, but something about it doesn't land quite right. Maybe it's the awkwardness of some of his lines - it's clear that he has never read a whole lot of these poems out loud. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Colonisation, Sexual content, and Racism

Minor: Police brutality, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Classism

hue's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Racism

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Challenging, sad and reflective. These poems packed punches of anger and grief. 

Some fav quotes: 
"None of the beaten end up how we began." - part 1, duplex
"A poem is a gesture toward home." - part 1, duplex
"I'm not crossing to cross back. I'm set on something vast. It reaches long as the sea. I'm more than a conqueror, bigger than bravery. I don't march. I'm the one who leaps." - part 3, crossing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Sexual content, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, and Rape

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Hate crime and Rape

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

aarushig02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

I really liked this collection, and the poetry was just so well done !!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

badmom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual content

f18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Child abuse, Violence, Gun violence, Racism, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, and Chronic illness

Minor: Sexism, Rape, and Bullying