Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Repubblica sorda by Ilya Kaminsky

11 reviews

hamstringy's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Jesus Christ. Kaminsky is a brutal writer. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, War, Child death, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Pregnancy

poetlite's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Police brutality, War, Sexual content, and Torture

juliethere's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

zabiume's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The writing style was so gut-wrenching and precise, so evocative and vivid, that it really comes alive in the mind's imagination. I liked the way the entire story unfolds like an epic (somewhere between poetry and drama). The author tackles some intriguing themes, like trying to live your life amidst global (or local) political crises – and the complexities of that life as well. A lot of lines were truly beautiful and makes you ponder about human resistance, interconnectedness, hope and faith. Kaminsky captures little nuances or gestures of human behavior that pull you into the poetry and make it very believable. I thought it was very clever how he integrated the semi-autobiographical (his own experience with deafness), with the political (deafness as a form or protest or insurgency).

There were some parts I didn't get, but I think that's entirely a me problem. Overall, this was a short but good read! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, War, Sexual content, Gore, Police brutality, and Violence

jazhandz's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Powerful combination of poetry and drama. It walks the line between the two and draws you into a spare story of resistance and oppression. I went in unsure of what to expect and was swept up in the narrative, finishing this in just a sitting or two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Death of parent, Police brutality, Ableism, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

aeudaimonia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Child death, and Police brutality

random19379's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Violence, War, and Grief

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Rating is entirely on my experience and I'm still very new to poetry. This was a very intriguing one that definitely got me thinking and is potentially one I'd want ti revisit at some point in the future

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Police brutality

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Ilya Kaminsky's enunciation is one of a rabbi or a cantor: it makes everything about this book more potent, more real, more than it already is. It's a work of art. I adored it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Pregnancy, Police brutality, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content