Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

21 reviews

astralfeline's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence, Excrement, and Outing

lilawsahar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Buy it! Read it! If you’re white, use it to develop some empathy! I’m white and my heart grew ten times the size. Off to go buy their other poetry collectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, and Classism

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief

brittney_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Listen to the audiobook, as it is read by the author. They did a phenomenal job; very moving pieces 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

Danez Smith’s poetry is reflective of life, and takes a hard look at racism, homophobia, and living with aids. There are a lot of striking lines in this book. I listened to the audio, so although I don’t think I got as much of the poems’ contents, it was fun listening to Danez perform his work. I also appreciated the intro explaining the real title of this collection and why he called it Homie.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Police brutality, and Grief

yellow_star's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Overall this book is basically Angry Poems, and an aggressive theme. But most of it is fair. Like the line "poeming some men's hands off,  they know what they did" (paraphrase not exact words) is aggressive but fair. There is a poem in the beginning about a whole group beating one kid up though so maybe don't have young kids read this. 

There's also themes of racism, bigotry, etc. There are also the  related slurs. 

The nature poems are so fresh! I love the completely new to me imagery for nature.

The poverty poems are also completely relatable. 

I'm not a huge fan of poems that jump all over the place like a lot of modern literary poetry does, but each poem is usually about some topic and mostly continues the same conversation. There's still a little bit of chaotic unrelated subject changes but very little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Slavery

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I saw Danez Smith perform at my college a couple years ago, a set that included some of these poems, so I think that's at least part of why I can hear these poems while reading! They have such an imaginative and even playful conversational tone while also exploring with such care and thoughtfulness very emotional issues. I just really love their poetic style and this collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

challenging reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Police brutality

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

lcyarnall1's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief