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robinks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Similar to Night Sky with Exit Wounds, the run on sentences made some poems really hard for me to follow. Overall, however, I felt the impact of these poems, their imagery and select phrases.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, War, and Classism
Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol
issyd23's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.0
Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’.
Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker.
‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.
And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism