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xaqrii's review against another edition
1.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt
tyelperinquar's review against another edition
4.5
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
feliciaguestwrites's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Grief
honest_soupe's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Death, and Grief
savvy999's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Sexual content
mmiski's review against another edition
4.25
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
tailwhip's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Gun violence, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship
penofpossibilities's review
5.0
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
norrell's review against another edition
2.25
a. hands
b. glass
c. death and blood
d. knives and guns
e. stars
+the language of passion, mourning and violence
etc.
It’s also really gay.
All of this half-joking sentiment aside - the language is accessible and sometimes surprisingly rich, the thoughts not so much. Funnily enough, roughly half of the lines perplexed me while the other half seemed so… uninspired, bland - cliché if you will. Although I must admit a few stuck around (the liked quotes and a few other lines).
There is a grander emotional narrative being spun but all in all the poems moreso overlap and mingle, with leitmotifs galore, rather than form a story.
Much of the deeper meaning escapes me as I haven’t been able to scratch under the surface yet. This is possibly due to my dislike of Siken’s way of writing poetry, the sheer (literal and thematic) repetition of it bludgeoned any patience and interest left in me (as it rarely worked, in my opinion). I don’t know.
But there’s something missing, unfulfilling here. The collection felt like flashing images.
To conclude, Richard Siken’s poetry just doesn't speak to me and I've made my peace with that fact.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts
_mineru's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Homophobia and Suicidal thoughts