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Naming The Waves by Christian McEwen

hattifnatt98's review

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5.0

This one moved me more than I expected it to. It presented to me my own trauma put into words in the form of political poetry about sexual (sexist) violence and at the same time it felt like a love letter to all queer women. Bonus point for (as far as I could tell) actually being intersectional and also including poets that did not necessarily operate/identify with the term "lesbian".

All in all, i felt dissected, called out and worshipped while reading this and I loved it.

That being said, big time content warnings:
Mentions of suicide
Sexual assault
Homophobia
Mentions of the holocaust and very intense intergenerational trauma
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