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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

54 reviews

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: 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

itskayleighlove's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent

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

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

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: Addiction, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and War