syafa's review against another edition
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
I really liked the intro essay, I think that's what sold it for me. I'm admittedly not the most poetry leaning person and it didn't help that I read this in a rush but yeah. I did like how a lot of the poetry incorporated letters and testimonies and interviews. I thought that really tied it into the social activist message behind it
2000s's review against another edition
3.75
Really unique way of documenting a historical event. I found this book through the poem Absalom which I read on Poetry Foundation and is now one of my all time favorite poems. The rest of the book was pretty good but imo didn’t totally match up to that one poem. It was still worth the read and so thoughtful and emotional though, pretty accessible too.
The intro was very long but could be useful if you have deeper interest in this topic.
The intro was very long but could be useful if you have deeper interest in this topic.
caseybones's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism and Chronic illness
Minor: Violence
prcizmadia's review against another edition
5.0
Jesus this work floored me. I can't stop thinking about it. I'm not even sure I'm able to grasp the totality of this and I'm grateful that I'm condemned to wrestling with it, and it's voluminous and unfiltered, clench-fisted truth for a long time yet.