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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
2.75
emotional reflective slow-paced

I wished I like this more then I did. I think it is just too "intelligent" for me. Many poems seem to clearly have thought and word play within them... Things that I could get if I took some time to put two and two together. But I just don't particularly care for that kind of poetry reading. 

There was one poem that was towards the middle that was so very excellent and evocative that the whole thing was worth the read for myself... Though I cannot say I "liked" the book for it. The last poem was also good imo. 

I'm sure a lot of good things are going on here, just not in the way I enjoy for how I read poetry.