Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

22 reviews

asnecessaryasbread's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicide

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

Serophobia

camsara99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Slavery and Suicide

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Moderate: Gun violence

samchase112's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Powerful language, powerful messages, made even more powerful by the fact that I was listening to the poet himself. If you read this collection, please listen to the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Police brutality, Blood, Gun violence, and Death

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.0

This is a book of poetry about being a Black gay man with HIV in America. Some of the poems were beautiful and had really clever use of language, but other than a few standouts I felt like a lot of them were very similar to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, and Slavery

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