Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

18 reviews

softgalaxy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful poetry. Just beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Xenophobia, War, Hate crime, and Violence

danajoy's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

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

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’. 

Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker. 

‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.

And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Racism, Violence, Cancer, War, Classism, Death of parent, Homophobia, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Death

soswiin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Violence, and War

ericispublius's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, and Death

bashsbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The hype around Ocean Vuong's poetry is well-earned. I recommend reading these poems aloud.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Violence

Minor: Car accident

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

m4rtt4's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Beautiful.

Nothing negative to say, but obviously not every poem can hit the same. My favourite ones were Dear Peter, The Punctum and Not Even — a million stars for those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Racism, Death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Violence, Medical content, and War

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