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 value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. Vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicentre 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 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787333840
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/04/2022
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong (Ho Chi Minh, antigament Saigon, 1988) va emigrar als Estats Units amb la seva família el 1990 després de passar un any en un camp de refugiats a les Filipines. El 2014 va rebre la beca Ruth Lilly / Sargent Rosenberg de la Poetry Foundation i amb el poemari Night Sky with Exit Wounds va guanyar el Whiting Award i el Forward Prize als Estats Units i el Premi T. S. Eliot a Anglaterra. Ha publicat en mitjans com The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker i The New York Times. És professor de l’Amherst College de Massachusetts.