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This is a terrific collection of poems, stories, and performance pieces. While the core emotion from which these texts of incest, trauma, rape, sex work, and recovery come is more than enough to draw a reader in and hold them riveted, Sapphire also proves herself a consummate artist in this collection. Having seen her perform and read her texts a few times back in NYC in the '90s, I was happy to come across this collection over the summer in a second hand shop, and to finally take the time to re...
no words can describe the PAIN of an adult who was MOLESTED as a child, however SAPPHIRE [Poetess extraordinaire:] manages to creatively find those words, and clues us all in... and in turn, we are all somehow made better because of such bravery. such humanness. and such talent.
Edgy, spoken-word type pieces. Probably come to life when performed.
good very graphic but good
This is a collection of poems, stories, and performance pieces that deal with a huge range of emotions. It is at once about trauma, incest, rape, and sex work, but also recovery. Sapphire has a voice you cannot ignore, it's authentic, and cracks open sentences and parses in a way that means we the reads cannot look away. Just powerful.
It's difficult to rate this book because it's a book about sexual violence. Those interested in hearing hard truths about Sapphire's version of the black experience will learn about hatred, rage, addiction, and pain from this book and feel the aftershocks, I suspect, long after the last page is turned.
A very moving book of poetry and prose that is at times difficult to read.
this book convinced me that my words are not too ugly to be beautiful.
Very well written. I closed this book feeling sad, and hopeless for Black women. But I'm glad that writers like Sapphire are brave enough to tell our stories.
at a loss 4 words... want her voice inked onto my skin...
To be honest, I didn't even know WHAT I was reading or what it meant most of this book. All I did know was that whatever she was saying, she felt it literally from the deepest part of her core. This book is just filled with emotion, real life emotion. It's told in "short stories", and I think each one was supposed to have a deeper meaner, but I really couldn't even tell a difference among ANY of the characters. Male or female, the characters just suffered, and it was heartbreaking yet moving as
Became my favourite poet the second I read this book.
I love Sapphire for her real and raw honesty. With that said, the truth can be hard to listen to at times. It took me a while to read it, because at times, I just had to put it down and come back to it because of the emotional overload. I found the overall tone of the book to change constantly between sad and triumphant. Sapphire speaks for those who are unspoken for. I'll always love her books simply for exposing the truth about the things the we don't like to talk about in mainstream culture a...
