Reviews tagging 'Death'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

66 reviews

saragrochowski's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Sexual violence, and War

maria_winther's review against another edition

5.0

🫰🏼

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and War

pey333's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

krys_kilz's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

This collection was incredibly moving and several of the poems brought me to tears, especially the poem Nothing. I liked this collection better than his first, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, but it's similar in the way he plays with language, emotion and form. It's definitely a collection I plan to return to.

My favorite poems in the collection were: The Bull, Dear Peter, Beautiful Short Loser, American Legend, Not Even, Nothing and Ars Poetica as the Maker.

"I'm not sad, he told me once, laughing, I'm just always here."

"I know. I know the room you've been crying in is called America.
I know the door is not invented yet."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Suicide

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

sonyareadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

vigil's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

for the most part, this collection didn’t hit as hard as his previous one for me. the poems in this one truly shined the more reflective they were, especially those focusing on the gathering thread of the poems, his mother. 

but so much time was spent, in my opinion, meandering that i believe that you could remove the first section and the collection would be stronger for it. my favorite of them all is section 2 where he really began to shine, and returned to the things that made me enjoy his poetry in the first place. the final two sections didn’t quite manage to live up to the second, but it was miles better than that first portion. 

my personal standouts here are:
the last dinosaur 

waterline

rise & shine

dear t

amazon history of a former nail salon worker 

nothing 

ars poetica as the maker

the punctum

tell me something good

woodworking at the end of the world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, 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: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Colonisation

solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide and War

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