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mscalls's review
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Minor: Death and Genocide
katharina90's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Brilliant, powerful, and laugh out loud hilarious. The best poetry I've come across in a while.
"Look, I’m sure you really do just want to wear those dream catcher earrings. They’re beautiful. I’m sure you don’t mean any harm, I’m sure you don’t really think abt us at all. I’m sure you don’t understand the concept of off-limits. But what if by not wearing a headdress in yr music video or changing yr damn mascot and perhaps adding .05% of personal annoyance to yr life for the twenty minutes it lasts, the 103 young ppl who tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation over the past four months wanted to live 50% more"
"Once on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground, pick it up and throw it away.
Yr such a good Indian says some dick walking to class. So,
I no longer pick up trash."
"I am missing many cousins, have you seen them?"
'I can't write a nature poem bc English is some Stockholm shit, makes me complicit in my tribe's erasure--why shd I give a fuck abt "poetry"?"
"Look, I’m sure you really do just want to wear those dream catcher earrings. They’re beautiful. I’m sure you don’t mean any harm, I’m sure you don’t really think abt us at all. I’m sure you don’t understand the concept of off-limits. But what if by not wearing a headdress in yr music video or changing yr damn mascot and perhaps adding .05% of personal annoyance to yr life for the twenty minutes it lasts, the 103 young ppl who tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation over the past four months wanted to live 50% more"
"Once on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground, pick it up and throw it away.
Yr such a good Indian says some dick walking to class. So,
I no longer pick up trash."
"I am missing many cousins, have you seen them?"
'I can't write a nature poem bc English is some Stockholm shit, makes me complicit in my tribe's erasure--why shd I give a fuck abt "poetry"?"
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation
Minor: Sexual content
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
a book of poems w/ an acerbic voice, where the NDN author ruminates on his dislike of nature, which subvert the racist, popular stereotype that all natives love tf out of mother earth.
pico explores his life as a native and queer person in the city, as well as his existence in a colonialist and homophobic world all while always circling back to his themes of nature, identity, and his community in an oft witty, illuminating way.
the transition between each poem can be confusing, however; idk if it's bc of the formatting on the e-book edition. and some of the poems can be a lil forgettable. still, it's a joy to read pico's poems and i'll be checking out more of his works.
pico explores his life as a native and queer person in the city, as well as his existence in a colonialist and homophobic world all while always circling back to his themes of nature, identity, and his community in an oft witty, illuminating way.
the transition between each poem can be confusing, however; idk if it's bc of the formatting on the e-book edition. and some of the poems can be a lil forgettable. still, it's a joy to read pico's poems and i'll be checking out more of his works.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Colonisation
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Suicide, Death, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Sexual content
laetitiacaz's review
5.0
<3 rly liked it
fav. Page 56
love the style and the way it hits you where it hurts whilst in the next sentence casually talking about tornado f*ing
Also like the critique about who can write poetry who is seen in the literature world and so on
fav. Page 56
love the style and the way it hits you where it hurts whilst in the next sentence casually talking about tornado f*ing
Also like the critique about who can write poetry who is seen in the literature world and so on
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide
inthereads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, and Mental illness
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