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A review by dejnozkova
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
This is my first experience reading Ocean Vuong’s work and I am shocked to see by many reviews that this is his weakest work? Because through this collection I fell in love with Vuong’s style —the smooth transitions, parallelisms, moments of reflection, seamlessly drawn connections, turns of phrases being flipped and tossed, unique combinations of imagery, etc.. The mood of this collection is reflective and bittersweet, beauty intertwined with tragedy, sex paired with destruction, the grief that comes from loving —that the pleasures and joys of the world are inextricably entwined in loss and pain.
I do have to agree with some criticisms I’ve seen where in some places some pieces do show a little bit of an “Instagram poetry” influence, but tbh I don’t think this is a weak collection as a whole and still enjoyed a good handful of the poems within.
I do have to agree with some criticisms I’ve seen where in some places some pieces do show a little bit of an “Instagram poetry” influence, but tbh I don’t think this is a weak collection as a whole and still enjoyed a good handful of the poems within.