Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

15 reviews

soswiin's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

2.0

i'm sure these are beautiful poems but i just couldn't understand 95% of them. i understood the themes behind this collection but i couldn't apply them to the words on the page all that well

ok but "the most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world" and "maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we're this close to the devil."? COME ON

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, and Domestic abuse

evakonic's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

I think the poetry was well-written but some of the topic matter wasn’t really for me. I went in thinking this was more of a series of poems tying into family struggles and grief but I found a lot of it lewd and about other things. That’s fine but just not what I expected.

I wish I read this after On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous instead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

maximauve's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Rape, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, and War

pippawig's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Grief

kianga_black's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Religious bigotry, and War

tinyjude's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Xenophobia

xmaiixx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Gun violence, Death, and Grief

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Sexual assault, War, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual violence, and Hate crime

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

3.75

Ocean Vuong's writing is beautiful as always and his command of the english language is honestly unmatched. This poetry collection felt deeply personal and emotional, to the point where I felt like it was written solely for himself and I was taking a peek into a part of his brain, reading his inner thoughts. Some pieces hit harder than others and that's the nature of any poetry collection, but for this one there were only 2 that stood out from the rest to me: "The Gift" and "To My Father / To My Future Son". I also think it was interesting reading this after his book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous because some of the lines referenced moments and situations in Vuong's life that seem to be referenced in his book too. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Death, Grief, War, Mental illness, Sexual content, Addiction, Car accident, and Gun violence