Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

5 reviews

bessadams's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, and Gun violence

Minor: Death

jacksons_books_and_music's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Profound, lyrical, visceral, enlightening, and moving poetry. It sheds light of the predatory prison system and its long-lasting impacts on those it incarcerates and their families.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Blood

mfrisk's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I will admit poetry is not something I typically pick up so I’m not surely I fully understood each and every poem in this book however the redacted poems in particular stuck out to me and were incredibly powerful. This is a book about incarceration and it’s wide reaching impacts and how we can continue to fight against them. Highly recommend everyone gives this book a try. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

The redaction poems are so well-crafted and powerful. Lots of good lines and powerful rumination on how incarceration compounds harm and is its own harm. I wasn't as sold on how the collection returns to women and love and harm in relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

francestea's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Despite being a newbie to poetry this collection was emotional and thought provoking.  I was particularly moved by "When I think of Tamir Rice While Driving". The four redacted poems really are something special and I went back at the end to reread them.  If you are also new to poetry I would recommend watching/listening to some of them read by Betts on YouTube.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Confinement

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence