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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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
an interesting book of poems that offers a revelatory look into america's fcked up incarceral system and the prison industrial complex. most revealing, however, is how the impact of the aforementioned reverberates in individual lives, creates intergenerational trauma, and affects black men's lives both in and after prison. there are many arresting lines and phrases here, but my fav thing is perhaps the redaction poems, which are very unique and impactful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Excrement and Police brutality