Reviews tagging 'Death'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

62 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

sonyareadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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 of parent, Grief, War, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

charlottesoph's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Murder, Terminal illness, 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: Suicide and Death