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Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto
2 reviews
pastelkerstin's review
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
3.5
Favourites:
"I Have A Time Machine" - Brenda Shaughnessy
"Don't Let The Fascists Speak [I am a child of America]" - Pat Parker
"Elegy with My Mother's Lipstick" - Paul Tran
"Dominion" - Carl Phillips
"Chelsea Piers" - Joseph O. Legaspi
"Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body" - Mark Aguhar
"The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" - Joy Harjo
"Heavy" - Hieu Minh Nguyen
"The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood" - Derrick Austin
"I Have a Rendezvous With Life" - Countee Cullen
"Cattails" - Nikky Finney
"Ghazal After Quebec City" - Madiha Khan
"The Cure For What Ails You" - Cameron Awkward-Rich
"I Have A Time Machine" - Brenda Shaughnessy
"Don't Let The Fascists Speak [I am a child of America]" - Pat Parker
"Elegy with My Mother's Lipstick" - Paul Tran
"Dominion" - Carl Phillips
"Chelsea Piers" - Joseph O. Legaspi
"Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body" - Mark Aguhar
"The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" - Joy Harjo
"Heavy" - Hieu Minh Nguyen
"The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood" - Derrick Austin
"I Have a Rendezvous With Life" - Countee Cullen
"Cattails" - Nikky Finney
"Ghazal After Quebec City" - Madiha Khan
"The Cure For What Ails You" - Cameron Awkward-Rich
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Death, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Gun violence, Violence, Bullying, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Misogyny, Xenophobia, War, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Sexism
Minor: Suicide, Self harm, and Slavery
Misgendering, nazissofiarodriguez's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
This is a beautiful poetry anthology that truly tackles the struggles of queer people of color in America. The structure of the anthology bridges and blends together different styles seamlessly while simultaneously maintaining an overarching theme of the feeling of "otherness" in the face of a hetero and cisnormative society. Some of the poems (such as "The Boy With Baleen for Teeth", "The Body in August", "The Language of Dust ", "Watching a Woman on the M101 Express", and "American Wedding") truly resonated with me and left me thinking about my own identity while staring at the ceiling at 1 am
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Islamophobia
Moderate: Fatphobia
These poems try to tackle big-picture issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Although I would highly recommend this anthology, I understand how this content could potentially be triggering to some people.
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