Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

16 reviews

okayletsread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

I appreciate Ocean's vulnerability, which is clearly given as a gift to his readers, but the style and content of the poetry wasn't my preference. The images often felt disjointed to a point where I had a hard time grasping the substance of each poem. I felt rather distracted by the competing details. I'd still like to try his memoir which I've heard is breathtaking and heartbreaking, but this didn't work for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Drug use, Homophobia, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Death

robinks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Similar to Night Sky with Exit Wounds, the run on sentences made some poems really hard for me to follow. Overall, however, I felt the impact of these poems, their imagery and select phrases.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Cancer, Racism, Classism, Blood, Suicide, and War

Minor: Vomit, Gun violence, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Medical content, Homophobia, Alcohol, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

mirandyli's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

Exquisitely beautiful poetry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug use, Racism, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Death, Colonisation, Homophobia, Grief, and War

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Cancer, Car accident, Medical content, Racism, Death, Hate crime, Grief, Suicide, Animal death, and War

Moderate: Gore, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, and Pedophilia

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

frankieclc's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Drug use, and Grief

billiekate's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Drug use

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

fengxin's review

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

emory's review against another edition

reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Addiction, Bullying, Death, Car accident, Cursing, Cancer, Drug use, and War