Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

94 reviews

miayukino's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The literary equivalent of a no skip album.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Death, and Death of parent

alainareading's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

ocean vuong has done it again! this is a piercing collection of poetry. the connection made between survival as a creative act resonates with me so so deeply. i finished time is a mother a month ago but i’m still thinking about it. thank you, ocean vuong, for your beautiful, profound words! 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Terminal illness, and War

sidneyreads_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Cancer

vkitoria's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

truthfully, i didn't love most of the poems in this collection but "amazon history of a former nail salon worker" made me want to leave work early. i will never recover. i'm honestly about to go into the bathroom to weep all over again just thinking about the bulk purchase of zebra cakes and the snoopy card and the "chemo glam" head scarf and the wool socks bought for a winter that wasn't going to come. bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Death of parent

miamcmillan's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

very quietly world-shattering. “amazon history of a former nail salon worker” made me burst into tears the first time i read it. i listened to vuong on the radio talking about this collection and he spoke so beautifully that i immediately went out and bought it even though at the time i’d never read any of his work before. the excerpt from “beautiful short loser” had a profound impact on me,

“i know. i know the room you’ve been crying in is called america. i know the door is not invented yet.” 

vuong just says so much in so few words that it is astounding. i also loved “nothing” and thought it was a beautiful, deeply intimate poem. the entire collection was trembling and aching and still but never static. made of snow and sunlight and utterly stretched. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent and War

mmaack24's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

gorgeous. my favorite poetry collection and some of my favorite work from ocean vuong.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

charlottesoph's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Murder, Terminal illness, and War

Minor: Hate crime

itskayleighlove's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent

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

millamagia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia