Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

59 reviews

jessi_c's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Death by Künstlerroman, no survivors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

hmetwade's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

readingpicnic's review

3.0

The Amazon history chapter broke me and had me crying in the bathroom. Ocean’s narration is excellent as always, although a lot of the poetry just didn’t hook me like I expected it to. 
My favorite lines: “Do you know how many hours I’ve wasted watching straight boys play video games? Enough.” Highly relatable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, and War

kain47's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

idesofmarch's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism and Sexual content

Minor: War

tsukk's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

alsoapples's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

emmareeser's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Grief

Moderate: Addiction and Cancer

nineinchnails's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

i don't usually read poetry so i think a lot of these went over my head. i didn't really connect to or understand much of the poems in the first half of this collection which was a little disappointing because i've heard such good things about vuong's work. there were more than a few poems in the second half that managed to grip me though. 

'Künstlerroman' was my favourite here. if i'm remembering correctly it was the longest poem, which might be why i managed to connect to it more. it was gutting and felt very raw. a shorter poem i really enjoyed was 'Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker'. i don't think i've ever had a list poem make me tear up like that. vuong is no doubt a talented poet but i think the formatting and structure of most of these poems just didn't work for me - that's not to say that they'll never work for me, but as it stands i don't read much poetry so i much preferred the longer poems in this collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Terminal illness, Car accident, and War

Minor: Suicide and Police brutality

softgalaxy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful poetry. Just beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Xenophobia, and War