Reviews

Say It Hurts by Lisa Summe

kaylin1612's review

5.0

Ahhhh ooooooofff!!! Zoinks! Crikey! That just hit anywhere it could have hurt. Wow. Just wow. I feel like there is a poem in there for every gay person to have ever gayed. So many of them were gut punches. So many beautiful lines.

Truly cannot say enough good things, I loved being on this journey with her. Walking through her life with her, through love and loss. I thought it was going to end happy and then I thought it really was not and therefore ended up being pleasantly surprised at the end, while still in some sort of agony I can’t quite put my finger on.

Defs have already been recommending to my queer friends!

geva1108's review

5.0

brilliant

heatherchrisman's review

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

kstookley's review

5.0

This approachable book of poetry has a narrative arc somewhat reminiscent of Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Flows artfully as it dissects relationships to family, gender, sexuality, and plain old romantic relationships. Having many of the poems with the same title demonstrates how these issues come up again and again and again in a life (the most obvious, of course, are the three different poems called "Coming Out," because every queer knows that you need to come out again and again and again).

jrcrawf's review

emotional reflective sad

2.0

lilaceous's review

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

impact - ⭐️

interesting feel - .5⭐️

engaging overall - ⭐️ 

would recommend - .5⭐️

would read again - ⭐️

specially recommended to me by a poetry professor (lol). full of yearning and sweetness and heartbreak.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Death of parent