Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman

9 reviews

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

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

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

aargot1's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief

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thebakerbookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read these poems slowly, just a few every day, and I highly recommend. I feel like usually I’m rushing through books, trying to read as much as possible; it was so nice to just take it slow with this one and really absorb the poems.

Touching on ideas of grief, memory, and identity, these poems also dig in to collective trauma, and what it’s like to experience tragedy together. She uses letters from history to reflect on present-day events, and even the formatting of her words have meaning (for example, the words of one poem form an image of a whale).

Honestly, my words can’t do these poems justice, so I’m just gonna say—even if you don’t usually read poetry, there’s something here for you. I recommend for anyone who needs some reflection on the past two years.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Death, Racism, and War

anniereads221's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Police brutality, Grief, Violence, and Racism

liwolf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Slavery, Violence, and War