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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 Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, 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.

This one is on the way to me from my library. Excited. I've heard great thing on Ocean Vuong. I'm not really into poetry at all but I'm hoping I will like this

Truly I don't get poetry lol. I tried to like this but I just don't understand it. I did find some lines I liked:

"Oh no. The sadness is intensifying. How rude."
Made me laugh

"Because everyone knows yellow paint, pressed into American letters turns gold"

"none of us are children long enough to love it"

"Rose, I whispered as they zipped my mother in her body bag, get out of there, your plants are dying"

I've started

you wrote a son into this world with no words :'(

There are some truly beautiful and heartbreaking quotes in this one. But idk if this was a good book club pick as there isn't much to discuss :/

Dee Dee wrote: "There are some truly beautiful and heartbreaking quotes in this one. But idk if this was a good book club pick as there isn't much to discuss :/"

Yeah cause there really isn't a plot haha. Have you read his other book On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous? From what I gather that one is told a little differently than this one and I'm curious to know whether it's worth picking up.

I plan to read that one next month. And agreed, there isn't really a plot here