This was a beautiful but difficult to read poetry collection. There were a lot of hard themes, but they were so wonderfully put together. Staceyann Chin says in her intro that someone once told her that no one will care about her struggles with being a woman in a few years, so she should stay away from putting that in her poetry. This collection defies that, centralizing her womanhood and the misogeny and violence she faced throughout her life. I think I'd like to read it again, and just sit with the different pieces for longer. I struggled with the decision of whether or not to add content warnings, because this is essentially an autobiography through poetry. You can't argue about "unnecessary violence" in a work of non-fiction... 
In terms of form, something I enjoyed exploring in this book was the longer lines and the longer pieces. A lot of the pieces were 3-4 pages long. After reading mostly short poems for my poetry class, I enjoyed exploring poems that lasted longer, reflecting on how that affected my reading of them, and thinking about everything that happens within just one piece. I really enjoyed the casual yet strong voice Chin has, where every poem was just free to go where she wanted it to, she would just say "and now to move on" (more elegantly though) and do as she pleased.