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Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

18 reviews

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

hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

A prayer after reading Ocean Vuong’s TIME IS A MOTHER:

May the taste of grief be slowly rinsed from our mouths. “What we’ll always have is something we lost,” but may we also always feel the edge of a found dollar bill when we reach into our pockets. May we reach towards a world where those too tired to be happy are still alive; may their rested bodies stretch the length of the earth and may heaven still be for another day. May dead mothers still be alive in dreams. May we dream that we can manipulate time and wake up, still breathing. “I was made to die but I’m here to stay,” and may we always have a reason to stay. May we leave people and places and memories so that we have a reason to stay. May we always wish for more; may we always allow ourselves to wish for more.

May this mediocre body still be enough. May sensation not hurt so much, and when it does, may we realize that a body that feels like this cannot be mediocre. May we continue to feel, and feel, and feel, even when feeling becomes too much. May we still love when we are afraid of love. May we still love when we have been hurt by love. May we still love because this is all the time we have to love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Self harm

emma_b_rhodes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and War

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

bmastando's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, War, and Sexual assault

sgrizzle's review against another edition

sad

4.0

Beautiful and deeply sad, like to the bones sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Racism, Cancer, Drug use, Death, Suicide, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

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