Time Is a Mother

A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning...
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Author: Ocean Vuong
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Time Is a Mother by Vuong, Ocean

Time Is a Mother

$62.11

Time Is a Mother

$62.11
Author: Ocean Vuong
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022

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 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.

Author: Ocean Vuong
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.35w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780593300237


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 8
Library Journal 03/01/2022 pg. 140
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2022

About the Author
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Genius Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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