Reviews tagging 'Death'

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

18 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

moreadsnrambles's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful is the first word that comes to mind. These poems cover the range of emotions with a heavy focus on grief, Black and queer experience, and HIV. Very challenging and emotional but extremely important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Medical content, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Gun violence

faithratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, and Suicide

Minor: Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Murder, Death, Genocide, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Racism, Infertility, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, and Medical content

ashleyexe's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Police brutality, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death, and Racism

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

booksandteatime's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Fav poems: "summer, somewhere," "dear white america," "dinosaurs in the hood," "seroconversion," and "not an elegy"
rep: BIPOC, queer, HIV 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Suicide, Ableism, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, and Violence

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

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Racism, and Self harm

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

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