Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

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

clnpbd's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Police brutality, and 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

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

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

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