Ocean Vuong

Time Is a Mother

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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…
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    Un poeta impresionante. Libro enorme.

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  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life

    the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.

    & I was free.
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    these

    corpses I lay

    side by side on

    the page to tell you

    our present tense

    was not too late
  • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
    reader I’ve

    plagiarized my life

    to give you the best

    of me & these words these

    insects anchovies

    bullets salvaged & exiled

    by art

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