Time Is a Mother

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Synopsis
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.

How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part.

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America.

At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.

The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.

New York Times Bestseller

Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
128 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593300244
Related ISBNs:
9780593300237
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Ocean Vuong
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
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Bookshare Staff
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