Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

16 reviews

mikeybjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, and Violence

alondere's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The format can be confusing at first as Ocean tends to spice it up, but you'll get used to it quickly. Has such a creative use for symbolism and analogy that just guts you in at times. 

The novel title of his second book can be found here 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Racism, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Racial slurs and Violence

lynxpardinus's review

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Racism, and War

Moderate: Police brutality, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Death of parent, War, Sexual assault, and Violence

taysa_gzd's review

emotional

5.0

I mean i knew his writing was impactful but damn, it is strange to read someone who experience life so similarly to me yet so unique. I admire the openess of the author and the masterfull way to manipulate language. 

I'll admit i dont understand all the poems, some are a bit obscure, and i felt like on some pages the formating was unnecessary, but i greatly enjoyed reading this collection! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and War

jem_carstairs's review

emotional reflective sad

4.5

I’m not going to pretend I understood as much as half of the poetry in this book. But there were some lines that actually left me speechless. It was all beautiful. Even the parts I didn’t quite get.

I think my favourites were probably Trojan and Thanksgiving 2006. Anaphora as a Coping Mechanism and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous were also up there 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

siebensommer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

4.25

some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and War

Minor: Mental illness

kia_y_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, and War

mako_todo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful relaxing medium-paced

3.0

my mother said i could be anything I wanted, but I chose to live.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

moviemagus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Ocean Vuong's poetry digs into your flesh. It is like acid mixed with the smell of spring flowers. Hurts like breathing underwater.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Abandonment, Grief, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury