Reviews tagging 'Death'

Crush by Richard Siken

30 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

dragonlilly's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Very interesting visual poetry, if dark due to the heavy themes of death and self-harm. The poems seem to be heavily formed from the author's personal life, and may not be fully relatable or understandable to all, and certainly not to me, but the overall emotion and experience of reading it was interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Death and Self harm

feliciaguestwrites's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Crush was a dark whirlwind that had me in awe every time I finished a poem. There wasn't a single piece of this collection that I did not find utterly intriguing. His writing is the sort that will remain in the back of my mind forever, consuming my thoughts for days after I've put down the book. I have read Crush dozens of times and intend to read it a thousand times more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Grief

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

blackberryjambaby's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Blood

radarmagi's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

ace_b's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Blood

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

anoushka05's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Cursing, Blood, Bullying, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

saturnsmoons's review

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

this poetry compilation had phenomenally developed themes like queerness, erotica, lust and loss. I overall really enjoyed this read. my fav poem was either "saying your names" or "snow and dirty rain" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Blood