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. 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.
Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T.S. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. 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. 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.
'Take your time with these poems, and return to them often. (Later, he clarifies that it’s about the trepidation of publishing as a resigned, fretful act, wherein artistic agency ends.) Vuong is. The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong. He describes Time Is a Mother even the title is a metaphor as a calcified fossil publishing it this April, and never being able to revise it, was nailing Jesus on the cross. How else do we return to ourselves but to fold 17.89 38 Used from 11.00 44 New from 13.38 5 Collectible from 45.00.
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
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