Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Homie by Danez Smith

6 reviews

noura's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery and Classism

eldritch_horror's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

I felt bad rating this book a 3.75 at first so I changed it to a 4.0. It doesn't resonate with me as much as BLACK MOVIE did by this same author, and while they do an incredible job at writing most of this comes from my own relationship with poetry. However, I would still tell people to read this book and give it a chance, it's a book I feel a lot of people still should take the time to read even if they don't like it themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence and Classism

fieldofhats's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This was not an easy book to finish. It’s less than 100 pages, but it is extremely heavy. Danez Smith is a master poet who knows how to weave humor and dark topics together beautifully, but the heaviness often outweighs the humor in this one. This collection is poignant and relevant, but not wholly enjoyable. That’s not to say this is a bad collection by any means whatsoever — it was just hard to get through. Be thoroughly aware of the trigger warnings for this book before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Classism

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

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

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