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pitbulls_and_prose's review against another edition
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicide
Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Police brutality
Minor: Slavery, Violence, and Classism
deyonce54's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racial slurs
Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief
Minor: Suicide
the_readingraven's review against another edition
5.0
Along with the deep meaning, I loved the creativity that came with the formatting of several of these poems. It's not only a literary sense you're gathering but a visual one as well. My favorite line is from 'Acknowledgments': “& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have I loved a thing because you loved it? including me.”
Minor: Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
savvylit's review against another edition
4.0
Homie is a declaration of enduring and joyous love. Smith's deep compassion for their friends is a uniting theme in this structurally playful collection. Smith weaves their own identity as a Black, poz, queer, and nonbinary person through poems that capture how loving & living can be frustrating and beautiful at the same time.
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This was my second read for #transrightsreadathon 2024.
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Grief
yinflower's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia
readingtotravel's review against another edition
4.5
This was my first Danez Smith collection. I'm looking forward to reading more of their work.
Graphic: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: Blood
astralfeline's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Violence, Excrement, and Outing
becksusername's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief
yellow_star's review
3.75
There's also themes of racism, bigotry, etc. There are also the related slurs.
The nature poems are so fresh! I love the completely new to me imagery for nature.
The poverty poems are also completely relatable.
I'm not a huge fan of poems that jump all over the place like a lot of modern literary poetry does, but each poem is usually about some topic and mostly continues the same conversation. There's still a little bit of chaotic unrelated subject changes but very little.
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Classism
Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Slavery
khakipantsofsex's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence