Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

6 reviews

alisonfaith426's review

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Challenging, sad and reflective. These poems packed punches of anger and grief. 

Some fav quotes: 
"None of the beaten end up how we began." - part 1, duplex
"A poem is a gesture toward home." - part 1, duplex
"I'm not crossing to cross back. I'm set on something vast. It reaches long as the sea. I'm more than a conqueror, bigger than bravery. I don't march. I'm the one who leaps." - part 3, crossing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Moderate: Hate crime, Rape, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Moderate: Hate crime and Rape

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

aseel_reads's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Rape, and Police brutality

divineblkpearl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

No shaming here—His book 'The Tradition' is a 2019 poetry collection that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems certainly carry a certain weight, they have body to them. Which works because the poet pens about his body often. He writes of Black bodies touched with tender care by lovers and violated by those who are predators and those who do harm. 

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Poems like 'Bullets Points' point to the ever exhausting relationship Black people have to the police and being over policed here in America. The Duplex poems all share themes of love, lust, wholeness and being in repair. Jericho Brown, y'all. This is the necessary poetry book that I'm not sure we deserve but he gave it us anyway. Superb collection. I'm reading on my kindle but I just bought a physical copy and I'm looking up his other poetry collection now. 

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Also? This beautiful artwork on the cover by L. Ralphi Burges. A striking image that quietly kept looking at me, taking up space in my subconscious . It even made it into one of my dreams. And for someone who often doesn't remember most of my dreams, this was a really poetic thing. Note: The Tradition won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, making Jericho Brown the first black gay man to receive that award in its 98-year history. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime and Police brutality

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Rape, and Mass/school shootings

poetsaredepressed's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.0

Heavy & light & queer & black & current & timeless 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, and Sexual assault