noolesmooles's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
This poetry collection portrays really tangible feelings of rage, despair, and even fear that come alongside pervasive Black death and suffering throughout America's history and present moment. McGowan does an excellent job of communicating these feelings and her complicated thoughts and reactions.
The actual structure of the poems felt to me more reminiscent of brief, evocative political essays rather than poems as few utilized much poetic imagery or other hallmarks of the form. Otherwise, a really good collection.
The actual structure of the poems felt to me more reminiscent of brief, evocative political essays rather than poems as few utilized much poetic imagery or other hallmarks of the form. Otherwise, a really good collection.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Slavery
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Racial slurs
christinacarrie's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, and Gun violence
Minor: Rape
angel_kiiss's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism
Minor: Slavery and Racial slurs
ilikebooks_okay's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
5.0
"America, something is wrong"
This is so so powerful and necessary for everyone to read. McGowan is able to express the long term issues of race in America, she is able to talk wildly about it focusing on wide aspects but also on individual lives that most people would know from the media. "her light, brutally extinguished by the shadow/bent on destroying us all"
This book of prose was highly emotive and like I said early crucial for everyone to understand how deep rooted this issue is in American life. "There is little time to allow our children to be children"
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. This is my honest review.
This is so so powerful and necessary for everyone to read. McGowan is able to express the long term issues of race in America, she is able to talk wildly about it focusing on wide aspects but also on individual lives that most people would know from the media. "her light, brutally extinguished by the shadow/bent on destroying us all"
This book of prose was highly emotive and like I said early crucial for everyone to understand how deep rooted this issue is in American life. "There is little time to allow our children to be children"
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. This is my honest review.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Rape, and Police brutality
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