Reviews tagging 'Death'

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

6 reviews

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed a bunch of these works, although the order of the poems didn’t make sense to me. I particularly liked Run’n’Gun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Blood, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Police brutality

mayavd's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

Sapphic social justice with astonishingly expressive imagery and a through line of Native/Latinx/Mestizo culture and soul. The author both invites you in to see her culture and ancestral lives while also firmly delineating that Native practices cannot be expressed through Western metrics. 

The Manolete reference also floored me- truly masterful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Police brutality, and Colonisation

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Natalie Diaz is obsessed with her lover's hips

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Genocide, Racism, Police brutality, Trafficking, and Grief

mandkips's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Genocide, and Colonisation

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Colonisation, and War

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.25

I am touched—I am.
This is my knee, since she touches me there.
This is my throat, as defined by her reaching.

This collection is something really special. It’s not immediately accessible, but once you peel back the layers of each poem (scrolling through the dictionary a few times…), it’s so worth the work. Some favorites of mine include “Manhattan is a Lenape Word”, “American Arithmetic”, “They Don’t Love You Like I Love You”, “The First Body Is The Water”, “exhibits from The American Water Museum”, and “Isn’t the Air Also a Body, Moving?”. Too many favorites! I love the way she writes about water, light, language, and the body. I love how she connects the poems to one another through vocabulary and metaphor. Absolutely excellent and stunning. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation