Reviews tagging 'Death'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

67 reviews

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

okayletsread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

I appreciate Ocean's vulnerability, which is clearly given as a gift to his readers, but the style and content of the poetry wasn't my preference. The images often felt disjointed to a point where I had a hard time grasping the substance of each poem. I felt rather distracted by the competing details. I'd still like to try his memoir which I've heard is breathtaking and heartbreaking, but this didn't work for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

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

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

rachjellie's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful beautiful book. 

I don’t think it is fair to rate such an intimate book and collection of poems, so I won’t. I will say that this collection is a representation of love, loss, grief, humanity. What it means to feel and to be human. 

Some favorites:
Dear Sara
Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker
Nothing 
Reasons for Staying
Ars Poetica as the Maker
Almost Human

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Grief

quinnowo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I was never really able to enjoy reading poetry until this collection. It's still my absolute favorite book of poetry. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

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