Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

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

the_readingraven's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I think many people should read this very touching piece of literature. Danez writes in such an honest, loving, raw type of way. This collection of poetry is for his friends and those he holds dear. If you are queer and Black, I highly recommend it. Even though I am not the target audience for this collection, many of these pieces come from the Black experience, I still love it and care for it all the same. 

Along with the deep meaning, I loved the creativity that came with the formatting of several of these poems. It's not only a literary sense you're gathering but a visual one as well. My favorite line is from 'Acknowledgments':  “& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have I loved a thing because you loved it? including me.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

astralfeline's review

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

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

invaderlinz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Murder