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thepassivebookworm's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Death, and Rape
mafeltz's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25
c100's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
lifeinpoetry's review against another edition
5.0
Excerpts:
reader, you’ve stolen my
meat, the marrow and tendon. i shape myself a body worthy
of your fear. i give myself hands, and build myself a mirror.
i give myself a jaw then splinter it. i prepare myself into a feast.
(from “in the event i become some unrecognizable beast”)
The first sounds he chewed into a word—Sorry. & I am / too, you God of ruin. God of dead children, and of the police. & oh, of my mother, too. A heinous God.
( from “unholy ghazal”)
yes/ i earned this country
i owe it nothing
with my infinite infant hand
i manipulated/ death sentences
into a single compound-complex one
(from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls”)
reader, you’ve stolen my
meat, the marrow and tendon. i shape myself a body worthy
of your fear. i give myself hands, and build myself a mirror.
i give myself a jaw then splinter it. i prepare myself into a feast.
(from “in the event i become some unrecognizable beast”)
The first sounds he chewed into a word—Sorry. & I am / too, you God of ruin. God of dead children, and of the police. & oh, of my mother, too. A heinous God.
( from “unholy ghazal”)
yes/ i earned this country
i owe it nothing
with my infinite infant hand
i manipulated/ death sentences
into a single compound-complex one
(from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls”)