Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

54 reviews

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, Grief, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, 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: Grief, War, Suicide, Cancer, Death of parent, Mental illness, Bullying, and Death

mxpringle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

alainareading's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

ocean vuong has done it again! this is a piercing collection of poetry. the connection made between survival as a creative act resonates with me so so deeply. i finished time is a mother a month ago but i’m still thinking about it. thank you, ocean vuong, for your beautiful, profound words! 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Terminal illness, 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

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: Grief, Homophobia, Violence, Death, and Racism

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

aiona's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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