Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

3 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.

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

not gonna pretend like i got any of this, buT its gonna be fun to figure out and grow with. there's alot of pain and destruction in this collection and i had to put it aside for a bit in the process of reading this. I dont think i got all the trigger warnings but just know its heavy and deals alot with dense and inherently sad and traumatic topics.

"maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we're this close to the devil"

"from men, i learned to praise the thickness of walls. from women, i learned to praise. if you are given my body, put it down."

"as if my finger, / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors, / was enough / to erease myself."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cannibalism