Time Is a Mother
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)
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Vuong, Ocean Author
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Penguin Publishing Group , 2022.
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"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington PostThe New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean VuongHow 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.
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Format
eBook
Street Date
04/05/2022
Language
English
ISBN
9780593300244
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vuong, O. (2022). Time Is a Mother . Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vuong, Ocean. 2022. Time Is a Mother. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vuong, Ocean. Time Is a Mother Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Vuong, O. (2022). Time is a mother. Penguin Publishing Group.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vuong, Ocean. Time Is a Mother Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.
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