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A review by pagesbyheidi
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
5.0
“i’ve plagiarised my life to give you the best of me and these words.”
i already knew how much i adored vuong’s works- i have previously read ‘night sky with exit wounds’ and ‘on earth we’re briefly gorgeous’, but i think this anthology takes the cake.
such beautiful, beautiful, beautiful writing. his words are full of history, emotion, pain, beauty, life, death and reading these poems was such a wonderful experience.
throughout, i picked out multiple quotes that stood out to me, so i will just share them below:
- “i thought the fall would kill me but it only made me real.”
- “i was made to die but i’m here to stay.”
- “i want to take care of our planet because i need a beautiful graveyard.”
- “i’m not a writer but a faucet underwater.”
- “you can be nothing and still breathing.”
the way he writes about death and his history is so incredibly heartwrenching yet beautiful- a complete juxtaposition. yet he brings these emotions within me, even when i’m almost falling asleep into the book. (which is why i took an extra day to read this. i was tired that day.)
vuong is one of the greatest (and one of my favourite) authors of our time, and i am so grateful to exist within a world where he writes.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
i already knew how much i adored vuong’s works- i have previously read ‘night sky with exit wounds’ and ‘on earth we’re briefly gorgeous’, but i think this anthology takes the cake.
such beautiful, beautiful, beautiful writing. his words are full of history, emotion, pain, beauty, life, death and reading these poems was such a wonderful experience.
throughout, i picked out multiple quotes that stood out to me, so i will just share them below:
- “i thought the fall would kill me but it only made me real.”
- “i was made to die but i’m here to stay.”
- “i want to take care of our planet because i need a beautiful graveyard.”
- “i’m not a writer but a faucet underwater.”
- “you can be nothing and still breathing.”
the way he writes about death and his history is so incredibly heartwrenching yet beautiful- a complete juxtaposition. yet he brings these emotions within me, even when i’m almost falling asleep into the book. (which is why i took an extra day to read this. i was tired that day.)
vuong is one of the greatest (and one of my favourite) authors of our time, and i am so grateful to exist within a world where he writes.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5