Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

9 reviews

booksthatburn's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Grief, Police brutality, Sexual content, Racism, Child death, Murder, Chronic illness, Suicide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Homophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Drug use

lasafica_reads's review

emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Child death, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, and Sexual assault

Minor: Self harm and Suicide

jonezzzing's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Racism, and Blood

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

4.5

Beautiful, heartbreaking and full of hope and strong words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Gun violence

Moderate: Police brutality and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing

calcijade's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Chronic illness, Blood, Death, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Police brutality, Child death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Racism, Suicide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia and Slavery

Serophobia

emzireads's review

emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Haunting, gut-punching poetry about being Black, queer, and HIV-positive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Police brutality

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Racism, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

gracew's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

This week is "read books by authors my friends turned me on to" apparently. I am so glad CJ told me about this poet because every single poem in this book is just incredible. Moving, powerful, passionate, it really takes over me as I'm reading it until I don't particularly want to do anything else but keep reading. It always surprises me to get to the end because I get so swept up I forget I'm reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Police brutality