Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

20 reviews

jodunn_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual content

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

randisworld's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

I love this collection. Themes of racism and sexuality loom large. I had so many aha and groaning moments while reading because so much of this work hit me straight in the heart. A wonderful collection! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence and Sexual content

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

ashareadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

wormytoby's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia

readingwithkt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Racism, Suicide, Self harm, Police brutality, Medical content, Gore, and Blood

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