Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman

26 reviews

cassellwrites's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Pandemic/Epidemic

natashaleighton_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I don’t usually read or enjoy poetry all that much, but Amanda Gorman’s collection was eloquent and emotional in a way that I wasn’t expecting. 

Her words perfectly capture the spirit and emotions that pretty much everyone has felt at some point in the past few years and I can’t imagine anyone not finding at least one poem that will deeply resonate. Even if you don’t like (or enjoy) poetry, I still urge you to pick this up—you may be surprised how much you enjoy it. 

And if your curious, some of my faves were:

At First 
The Shallows 
Lucent 
Fury & Faith
The Truth In One Nation
What We Carry 
(And of course) The Hill We Climb

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Slavery

Minor: Colonisation and Mass/school shootings

hullomoon's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

This was an excellent book of poetry and my favorite section was 'What a Piece of Wreck is Man.'

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Medical content

The medical content is in reference to

Spoiler

COVID-19 and the 1918 influenza epidemic

pointeshoebookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Slavery, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Hate crime

lahars_little_library's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

After listening to Amanda Gordon's collection of poems on audio, I am wishing I had a paper copy to mark all my favorite poems and quotes. As with all collections or anthologies you may not connect with every single poem. But I found that those I did (which was the vast majority) were so throught-provoking and had such exquisite use of language that I cannot help but give 5 stars. The Poem Survey followed by Gated should be required reading. It was so striking.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Death, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Mass/school shootings

sophtanda's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed it, it definitely felt reflective of the start of covid and the first lockdown, it was also very interesting as the style of the poems changed making each to feel refreshing 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, War, Grief, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

hmetwade's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Classism, Grief, Police brutality, Medical content, and Racism

divyareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Racism

readandfindout's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Style/writing: 5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Racism, Grief, Death, Slavery, Violence, and Medical trauma

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Police brutality, and Racism