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Céu Noturno Crivado de Balas by Ocean Vuong

33 reviews

archie_dermott's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and War

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Suicide

sheriffrockyraccoon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Devastating.

Especially now, everyone knows Ocean Vuong and his work. While I was familiar, this is the first time I’ve sat down and read one of his publications. His writing is absolutely beautiful and haunting, and can often be difficult to digest.

I don’t really have any criticisms of his work, I believe it has a strong voice and beautiful style, but I was not expecting the content to be so heavy and visceral. If you wish to read his work, make sure you are in a good headspace and take the time you need to process each poem, and care for yourself in the meantime.

I would recommend this to anyone interested in contemporary poetry. His work is beautiful, albeit incredibly depressing. I also think anyone interested in Woolf and Plath would greatly enjoy his work.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

While these warnings are not explicit in their descriptions, the emotion and pain is there. Be cautious when reading.

idesofmarch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

(I don't rate nonfiction)
I thought this was good, and I love Ocean Vuong's writing, but I'm not a big poetry person. His novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous was definitely more impactful for me personally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and War

Moderate: Death and Homophobia

joensign's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, and War

growintogardens's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

2.5

I don't think I was in the right headspace for this book, too much sex and violence for me today. I liked a few lines here and there, and I can see the literary merit to some of them, but yeah it's not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Grief

alondere's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The format can be confusing at first as Ocean tends to spice it up, but you'll get used to it quickly. Has such a creative use for symbolism and analogy that just guts you in at times. 

The novel title of his second book can be found here 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Minor: Racial slurs and Violence

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Violence

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, and War

Minor: Drug use