Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

19 reviews

dacha's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Police brutality

mayavd's review

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

mandkips's review against another edition

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

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

krys_kilz's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I need to sit with and return to this collection. There was so much beneath the surface of each word/line and so many allusions I didn't quite pick up on or comprehend. It's certainly not an easy read, but it was a worthwhile one.

My favorite poems in the collection were: Manhattan Is a Lenape Word, American Arithmetic, They Don't Love You Like I Love You, The First Water Is the Body, exhibits from The American Water Museum, and Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Genocide and Colonisation

bethread's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Colonisation

courtneyfalling's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Beautiful, tightly woven collection as a whole. Not sure the craft of individual poems will stick with me personally but the overall collection definitely will.

Favorite poems:

• Manhattan Is a Lenape Word
• Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball
• The First Water Is the Body
• exhibits from The American Water Museum
• Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide and Colonisation

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

Pulitzer Prize-winning Postcolonial Love Poem will make you want Natalie Diaz to write a love poem about you.  Here, she writes sensual lesbian poems and warm platonic ones, poems about water and basketball and things lost in translation.  Her elegant poetry begs to be studied—add this stunner from a Mexican Mojave poet to your shelf, and eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation

gabbygarcia's review

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