Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

33 reviews

mikkiokko's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

No words, just astonishment. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Death of parent, Suicide, War, Homophobia, and Mental illness

soswiin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Violence, and War

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

murderousscottishgremlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I cried a lot while reading this —Vuong has such a way with words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual assault, Genocide, and Homophobia

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, War, and Car accident

Minor: Racism, Suicide, Drug use, Animal death, and Homophobia

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The hype around Ocean Vuong's poetry is well-earned. I recommend reading these poems aloud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, and War

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Violence

Minor: Car accident

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, Suicide, War, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Cancer, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Violence, Car accident, and Racism

Moderate: Animal death

locke_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Medical content, and War

ejanephillips's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Bullying, Cursing, and Homophobia

artemisg's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.0

My attempt to become a poetry girly continues, and I think I'm starting to get it. This was a deeply emotional collection of poems, and I felt a little overwhelmed by the intimate and evocative nature of the writing. This collection primarily surrounds grief, and it is not a hopeful collection; it dwells on the sadness of someone dying before you could tell them everything you want them to know and not having that person around for the rest of your life. There is a lot of sadness here, but all of it is beautifully written.

Anyway, here are some of my favourite lines because I don't know how to correctly review poetry (and I'm not sure that poetry this intimate should be reviewed by Me):

That I recall every follicle in the failure the way they'll remember god after religion: alone, impossible & good. 

Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns to gold. 

I am starting to root for him, on his way to dust.

Strange, what a face can do
                                                   to a face. 

I reached into my pocket
but the gun was gone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, and Sexual content