Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

48 reviews

peckreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

emmareeser's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Grief

Moderate: Addiction and Cancer

meremeth's review

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

"Because this mess I made I made with love."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and War

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Suicide

ukponge's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

nineinchnails's review

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

forkontheleft's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal death and Suicide

dozicasey's review

emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

calcijade's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

allthebestjess's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

robinks's review

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