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micahhortonhallett's review against another edition
4.0
This is first book that I have read this year that feels really important. The poems are as diverse as the poets and not everyone landed with me, but what a middle class white guy thinks of the individual works is spectacularly unimportant. A book that needs to be read.
roonies's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
5.0
There are books that make you cry, give you chills, make you angry, spiteful. This made me feel everything. This made me feel seen.
miakaiko's review against another edition
3.0
A very wide range of stories. Some felt very personal to an experience I didn't relate to, which is fine. Although I did find some that really resonated with some of my own personal experiences as well.
These were some of the lines that I want to highlight:
"The most beautiful part of your body is where it's headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world." - Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, By Ocean Vuong
"a silhouette on a darker sea- for seasons I was faceless
trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star-map on my tongue.
Stars shone through the holes of my body."
- A boy with Baleen teeth, by Rajiv Mohabir
"when the colonizers emptied the villages, they lined up the men to be executed in front of their families, raped the women & planted pine trees over the wreckage. they were miles away from my teta's town. just far enough so no one could hear the screams. "
-Inheritance, by George Abraham
"I am hell, bitch. ...
Neptune is bitch-sobbing in my rearview, and I got my running shoes on and all this sky that's all mine. Fuck your order. Fuck your time. I realigned the cosmos. I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel."
-Pluto Shits on the universe, by Fatimah Asghar
"even when they strapped my arms to my sides and claimed I was incurable.
Then I woke this morning, no longer just that crazy lesbian footnoted in the texts. But a feminist who's still quite angry."
-To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973, by Jewelle Gomez
These were some of the lines that I want to highlight:
"The most beautiful part of your body is where it's headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world." - Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, By Ocean Vuong
"a silhouette on a darker sea- for seasons I was faceless
trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star-map on my tongue.
Stars shone through the holes of my body."
- A boy with Baleen teeth, by Rajiv Mohabir
"when the colonizers emptied the villages, they lined up the men to be executed in front of their families, raped the women & planted pine trees over the wreckage. they were miles away from my teta's town. just far enough so no one could hear the screams. "
-Inheritance, by George Abraham
"I am hell, bitch. ...
Neptune is bitch-sobbing in my rearview, and I got my running shoes on and all this sky that's all mine. Fuck your order. Fuck your time. I realigned the cosmos. I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel."
-Pluto Shits on the universe, by Fatimah Asghar
"even when they strapped my arms to my sides and claimed I was incurable.
Then I woke this morning, no longer just that crazy lesbian footnoted in the texts. But a feminist who's still quite angry."
-To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973, by Jewelle Gomez
bugboi32's review against another edition
4.0
A wonderful compilation of QTBIPOC poets. There is a great need to create compilations like this to preserve and celebrate our identities as queer people, as people of color and as poets so that our stories and experiences are not lost and forgotten.