Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Poetry, Adults
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong, Take your time with these poems, and return to them often. The Washington Post, 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 mothers 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 Were 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, Vuongs 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 M
