Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

7 reviews

poisoned_icecream's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Racism

faithratesbooks's review

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

keepthisholykiss's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A beautiful collection of poems on life experiences in race, disability, queerness, and being black in America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

calcijade's review

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Chronic illness, Blood, Death, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

camsara99's review

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

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.0

This is a book of poetry about being a Black gay man with HIV in America. Some of the poems were beautiful and had really clever use of language, but other than a few standouts I felt like a lot of them were very similar to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, and Slavery

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