Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

9 reviews

bookmark3brodi's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Sexual content, Classism, Hate crime, Abandonment, and Cultural appropriation

faithratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, and Suicide

Minor: Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Murder, Death, Genocide, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Racism, Infertility, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, and Medical content

jonezzzing's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Racism, and Blood

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

calcijade's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Chronic illness, Blood, Death, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Racism, and Self harm

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Police brutality, Child death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Racism, Suicide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia and Slavery

Serophobia

sarah984's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.0

This is a book of poetry about being a Black gay man with HIV in America. Some of the poems were beautiful and had really clever use of language, but other than a few standouts I felt like a lot of them were very similar to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, and Slavery

emfass's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Haunting, gut-punching poetry about being Black, queer, and HIV-positive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Police brutality

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Racism, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

pandagirlmb's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Racial slurs