Reviews

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

jukebugging's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.0

gigireadsandwrites's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Beautiful poetry. A unique voice. Powerful. 

megdaven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

This poetry collection is about being black and queer and how that fits into religion (maybe southern American religion spaces). BUT it also is  a breath of fresh air where someone really shows/describes the  hard to articulate emotions of what it means to be human in a world that always wants to tell you exactly how you should be or what you should be doing.  The poetry plays with words and form and even though the topic is hard - there is still so much joy in this book. Jae Nichelle is a spoken word poet, and therefore the audio is excellent (check out her vital YouTube video Friends with Benefits). Shout out to Caroline and and Natalie for suggesting reading and listening together. If you skipped poetry in poetry month- I would suggest  reading this in May. 

dgrachel's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

I have no business rating this. Poetry is not my thing and I read this only for a reading challenge. I will say that I thought the structure of many of the poems was clever and I really loved the ones claiming to be written with predictive text. 

cowboylikestoread43's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

fluoresensitive's review against another edition

4.0

Stunning! The psalms one was especially good!

mxsunflower's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

natalieba's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

An excellent poetry collection, which I listened to while I read on the page (thank you to my library!). Totally the way to go - you get something from each format. Beautiful, thoughtful, funny in places, sad in places. I really enjoyed the consideration of and reflection on God and faith as well. 

geoffgaspar's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

savshelfinger's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

fantastic collection that captures a lot about family, race, and late capitalism. will be recommending this one 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Racism

Moderate: Eating disorder