Time Is a Mother
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 5, 2022
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- Who it’s for
- These poems stay with grief and loss while reaching toward survival, tenderness, and restoration.
- Themes
- Grief and survival, Family and memory, Tenderness amid violence
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.
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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.
Grief, Tenderly Held
These poems stay with grief and loss while reaching toward survival, tenderness, and restoration.
Come here for
- Intimate reflections on family, memory, and personal and social loss
- Language that meets tenderness without looking away from violence
Expect
- A collection that moves between grief and the will to survive
- Vivid, formally daring poems that ask you to linger
Where it sits
| Poetry About Death | 74% |
|---|---|
| Asian American Poetry | 50% |
| LGBTQ+ Poetry | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Asian American Poetry
- LGBTQ+ Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Authors
- Ocean Vuong
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Grief and survival · Family and memory · Tenderness amid violence
- Reading lane
- Asian American Poetry