Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

3 reviews

bookishlesbian's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

Minor: Death and Violence

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

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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, nazis

brnineworms's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Every poem in this anthology is moving and powerful in its own way. Some are harrowing gut punches, while others are more gentle and contemplative. The variety is certainly a boon.

I can’t rate each poem individually because there are so many of them, but some of my favourites were The [Black]Outs: Listen by Steffan Triplett, Actually, Yes, Everything is About Race by Madison Johnson, Untitled (Destroying Flesh) by Juliana Huxtable, and Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown by Saeed Jones.

I’m speechless. I wish I had something profound to say, some astute insight. I suppose the poems speak for themselves, so all I can do is give a recommendation. Five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, Hate crime, Child death, Death, Blood, Terminal illness, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Antisemitism, Genocide, Suicide, Cancer, Ableism, and Animal death

Minor: Slavery, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident