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girloleander's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Transphobia and Self harm
nick_jenkins's review against another edition
4.0
Powerful writing, especially "The Child Formerly Known As ________."
isabelreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Excellent collection, with strong images and themes mapping a terrain over which a queer transmasuline Black identity is forged and articulated. I cannot wait to seek out more.of Awkward-Rich's work in the future.
snowmaiden's review against another edition
4.0
These are delicate poems about transformation and metamophosis. My favorite lines, from “Ars Poetica”: “I don’t trust anyone/ who has never learned the person can’t be separated// from the rot.”
leotolstoy's review against another edition
oh my god what a magnificent collection - the way it dealt with transition, with grief and with the art of poetry was so beautiful and i do love a poetry collection with a clear cohesive theme so this was so great for me.
my favorite poems were ooo and ars poetica
some lines that really stood out to me were:
"now close your eyes // call this music // call this dancing // with a lover in the dark" and "there are the dead & those who haunt the dead & then become the dead & what a shame it is, what a pity. What a way to love"
my favorite poems were ooo and ars poetica
some lines that really stood out to me were:
"now close your eyes // call this music // call this dancing // with a lover in the dark" and "there are the dead & those who haunt the dead & then become the dead & what a shame it is, what a pity. What a way to love"