Time Is a Mother By Ocean Vuong Material:Hard Cover and current events to explore

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reaching outward to dissect cultural assumptions about identity and desire

Time Is a Mother By Ocean Vuong Material:Hard Cover and current events to exploreIn 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,