Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Crush by Richard Siken

6 reviews

tyelperinquar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Alcohol, Car accident, Incest, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

honest_soupe's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

gay ! gay poetry ! put my heart in a bottle and shook it really hard.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Death, and Grief

mmiski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Body horror, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Cancer, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Self harm, and Sexual violence

joshmacaroni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Death, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Cancer, and Alcoholism

penofpossibilities's review

dark fast-paced

5.0

what the fuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Incest, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Religious bigotry, and Police brutality

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

When I first read this collection, I was in high school, still in the first long-term relationship of my life, a relationship that was going well and felt whole, and I loved these poems. They spoke to an urgency and endless want in myself that I didn't know how to grapple with, but that I needed to not feel alone in. I was obsessive and I could survive anyway.

Rereading them almost (if not over) five years later, in the aftermath of that relationship turning into the exact kind of soul-crushing, regret-worn, drawn-out toxicity and unrequited pining this collection describes... I love these poems. I am obsessive; I might not survive anyway. But these poems aren't even focused on survival so much as registering the right here, right now, excavating it and turning it over to at least witness it fully before the future or lack of a future comes. And maybe that's what I need while in emotional crisis instead. It feels much realer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, and Self harm

Minor: Cancer