Reviews tagging 'War'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

63 reviews

forkontheleft's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal death and Suicide

dozicasey's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

robinks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Similar to Night Sky with Exit Wounds, the run on sentences made some poems really hard for me to follow. Overall, however, I felt the impact of these poems, their imagery and select phrases.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, War, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

keirahelena_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, and War

mirandyli's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

Exquisitely beautiful poetry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, and Antisemitism

yinflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

issyd23's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’. 

Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker. 

‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.

And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism

mikkiokko's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

No words, just astonishment. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

soswiin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War