Ocean Vuong Time is a Mother Paperback Book

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth Were Briefly GorgeousOne of the most important poets of his generationANDREW MCMILLAN, author of PhysicalPowerfulDUA LIPARedefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is forILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn 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. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuongs poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. 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. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forgingforth all at once. | Ocean Vuong Time is a Mother Paperback Book