Reviews tagging 'Death'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

66 reviews

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

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, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

charlottesoph's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Hate crime

samarakroeger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

I liked the longer, more prose-like poems a lot more than the ones with lots of random line breaks. 

Favorites: Beautiful Short Loser, Dear Rose

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

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: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

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

aiona's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

sgrizzle's review against another edition

sad

4.0

Beautiful and deeply sad, like to the bones sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, and War

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

God this was incredible. Ocean Vuong is such an amazing poet and I'm so glad I get to read his work. I don't even know where to start--this collection is just so so good. I wrote down so many lines and notes. I read a library copy but I absolutely want to own this book so I can read it again any time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and War

Minor: Murder

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: Cancer, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts