Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Penguin Press

Time Is a Mother

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"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post

The New York Times-bestselling 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 personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in 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 the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these 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 fellowship, 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Press
ISBN:
9780593300237
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
128
Authors:
Ocean Vuong
Published Date:
2022-04-05
Language:
English
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About Ocean Vuong

A 2019 MacArthur Fellow, Ocean Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, came to the United States as a refugee at age two, and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from Brooklyn College and an MFA from New York University. His debut poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019) was a New York Times bestseller, followed by The Emperor of Gladness (Penguin Press, 2025). He is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

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