Reviews tagging 'Death'

Crush by Richard Siken

26 reviews

blackberryjambaby's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Blood

radarmagi's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

ace_b's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Blood

joshmacaroni's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Death, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Cancer, and Alcoholism

anoushka05's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Cursing, Blood, Bullying, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

saturnsmoons's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

this poetry compilation had phenomenally developed themes like queerness, erotica, lust and loss. I overall really enjoyed this read. my fav poem was either "saying your names" or "snow and dirty rain" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Blood

tailwhip's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gun violence, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

tinygayturtle's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Richard Siken never fails to remind me how alone we all are and in turn how none of us have had an original experience. His writing is described as madness and I think he pulls it off on a way you may have to read over a few times, but feel like a better person for finally understanding. So so so good. 11/10 must read poetry

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Blood, and Death

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

5.0

what the fuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Incest, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Religious bigotry, and Police brutality

norrell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

2.25

 “Crush” is full of:
a. hands
b. glass
c. death and blood
d. knives and guns 
e. stars 
+the language of passion, mourning and violence
etc.
It’s also really gay.
All of this half-joking sentiment aside - the language is accessible and sometimes surprisingly rich, the thoughts not so much. Funnily enough, roughly half of the lines perplexed me while the other half seemed so… uninspired, bland - cliché if you will. Although I must admit a few stuck around (the liked quotes and a few other lines).
There is a grander emotional narrative being spun but all in all the poems moreso overlap and mingle, with leitmotifs galore, rather than form a story.
Much of the deeper meaning escapes me as I haven’t been able to scratch under the surface yet. This is possibly due to my dislike of Siken’s way of writing poetry, the sheer (literal and thematic) repetition of it bludgeoned any patience and interest left in me (as it rarely worked, in my opinion). I don’t know. 
But there’s something missing, unfulfilling here. The collection felt like flashing images.
To conclude, Richard Siken’s poetry just doesn't speak to me and I've made my peace with that fact. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts