Reviews tagging 'Grief'

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

9 reviews

pabi's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Toxic friendship, War, Grief, and Racism

bibliorama's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

How do you review a poem or a book of poems? I have no idea.

I don't read enough poetry to feel like I could give a decent review, so take my star rating with a grain of salt.

I liked many of the poems in this collection. The standouts to me were "Kal" "Partition, 1945: my grandfather steps off a train in Jammu & Kashmir" "How we left: Film Treatment" and "Other Body"

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Xenophobia, Blood, Bullying, Racism, Sexual content, War, Body shaming, Child death, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

doomluz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful and powerful. I didn't know much about the Partition of Pakistan and India. Asghar mentions it and how it still affects people. They also talk about their sexuality and gender. Also about being an immigrant, Muslim, and the Islamophobia after 9/11.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racism, Colonisation, Death, War, Bullying, Body shaming, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

counterfeitnickel's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A deeply personal and emotionally impactful work. Displays in uncomfortable detail the impact of inter generational trauma.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual assault, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Islamophobia, Grief, Domestic abuse, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

ukponge's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, War, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Violence

_saphyr_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

I need a physical copy of this book! I am dying to annotate. It is so lyrical, eye opening, daring, daunting, and blunt in the best ways possible. It definitely touches on some serious subject matters, definitely look into trigger warnings but as far as it's structure and execution, top tier. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Genocide, and Murder

softgalaxy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Amazing poetry. Felt it to my core. Didn’t hold back at all. Was stunned at some of the poems, how visually stunning they were.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Blood, Body shaming, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Death, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, War, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, and Islamophobia

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

alliemikennareads's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is a great volume of poetry. Beautifully written, with great structure, cadence, and overall language. Will pick this up again and definitely recommend it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief