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Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

24 reviews

growintogardens's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, Violence, and Cancer

kia_y_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Violence, Cancer, Car accident, Sexual content, Racism, and Death of parent

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

pey333's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Bullying, Racism, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

hannibanani29's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cancer, Suicide, War, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content and Vomit

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This is the first work of poetry I have read and I don’t know if anything will ever live up to this. Vuong’s works are lyrical and flowing and amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Bullying, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Biphobia, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicide

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

time is a mother is a reflective book of poems on grief, identity, time, and violence, w/ my fav being the brilliant "not even." the poems are raw, intermittently punctured w/ unusual imagery and turns of phrase tinged with death and the body, startling in their honesty and originality, though they can be a lil confusing at times.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Violence, Death, and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, War, and Sexual content

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Racism, Suicide, Blood, Sexual assault, Cancer, Mental illness, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, War, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

anka_not_anchor's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

This book is so, so, so beautiful and even better than Night Sky With Exit Wounds (in my opinion). No one writes quite like him. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, War, Addiction, Violence, Racism, and Sexual content

auger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I am the first to say that modern poetry can be disappointing to say the least. Vuong avoided everything that makes modern poetry cringy. He is quite criptic and the way his scentences start as one thing and end up as another is remarkable and very kawakami. Love it and will reread it many times over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicide, Self harm, Sexual content, Death, Cancer, Death of parent, Addiction, Racism, Police brutality, Mental illness, Blood, and War