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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

21 reviews

fengxin's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0


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m4rtt4's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Beautiful.

Nothing negative to say, but obviously not every poem can hit the same. My favourite ones were Dear Peter, The Punctum and Not Even — a million stars for those.

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growintogardens's review

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

2.75


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kia_y_k's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.75


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hilaryreadsbooks's review

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5.0

A prayer after reading Ocean Vuong’s TIME IS A MOTHER:

May the taste of grief be slowly rinsed from our mouths. “What we’ll always have is something we lost,” but may we also always feel the edge of a found dollar bill when we reach into our pockets. May we reach towards a world where those too tired to be happy are still alive; may their rested bodies stretch the length of the earth and may heaven still be for another day. May dead mothers still be alive in dreams. May we dream that we can manipulate time and wake up, still breathing. “I was made to die but I’m here to stay,” and may we always have a reason to stay. May we leave people and places and memories so that we have a reason to stay. May we always wish for more; may we always allow ourselves to wish for more.

May this mediocre body still be enough. May sensation not hurt so much, and when it does, may we realize that a body that feels like this cannot be mediocre. May we continue to feel, and feel, and feel, even when feeling becomes too much. May we still love when we are afraid of love. May we still love when we have been hurt by love. May we still love because this is all the time we have to love.

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emma_b_rhodes's review

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challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0


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laurenkimoto's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This is the first work of poetry I have read and I don’t know if anything will ever live up to this. Vuong’s works are lyrical and flowing and amazing. 

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thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

time is a mother is a reflective book of poems on grief, identity, time, and violence, w/ my fav being the brilliant "not even." the poems are raw, intermittently punctured w/ unusual imagery and turns of phrase tinged with death and the body, startling in their honesty and originality, though they can be a lil confusing at times.

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bmastando's review

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25


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sgrizzle's review against another edition

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sad

4.0

Beautiful and deeply sad, like to the bones sad

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