Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

33 reviews

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.

thalia16's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and War

joanna_banana's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I’ve read On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous and very much enjoyed it. To find the poem with that title in this collection was a surprise! Ocean Vuong illustrates all five senses in your head as you read, ways of seeing or feeling something I’ve never encountered before. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and War

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

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and War

mikeybjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

zackarinareads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

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

frankieclc's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content