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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

11 reviews

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

earlydecember's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Cancer, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

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

solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide 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

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

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

jayisreading's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Hmm, I don’t think this collection hit me as hard as his previous one, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, but maybe it’s because Time Is a Mother was different in tone and approach. It felt as though there was a kind of shift that occurred, where Night Sky with Exit Wounds focused a bit more on the grief and trauma he inherited, while Time Is a Mother focused more inwardly and related to his own grief and memory. Furthermore, this collection really highlights the significance of losing his mother, which is a new and crucial theme to consider. These poems felt a bit more experimental, almost as though Vuong was trying to figure out what other affective approaches existed.

The collection was a little polarizing for me. The poems I didn’t care for, I really didn’t care for, but the poems that really struck me were absolutely provocative and/or breathtaking. My two favorites were “Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker” and “Künstlerroman,” and I felt that the latter especially demonstrated Vuong’s poetic talent. It had stunning imagery and was packed with so much emotion. It was easily the best poem from this collection that I would say is the must-read.

Some favorites: “Beautiful Short Loser,” “Rise & Shine,” “The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica,” “Dear T,” “Not Even,” “Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker,” “Künstlerroman,” and “Almost Human” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Cancer

Minor: Racism, War, and Suicide