The release date for the English version of 'Time Is a Mother' by
Ocean Vuong is Apr 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Ocean Vuong, who embodies the dichotomy of sitting in sorrow while being resolved to live beyond it, looks for life among the tremors of his mother's death in this very personal second book of poems. Through memory shifts and in line with the themes of his book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong addresses issues of familial significance, personal loss, and the price of being an American war veteran in the United States. Vuong's poetry are dynamic, fearless, and energizing; they encircle broken lives in search of healing and the breaking point.
Vuong, a 2019 MacArthur fellow, the recipient of the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize, the highly acclaimed poetry book Night Sky With Exit Wounds, and the 2016 Whiting Award, writes poignantly about our shared humanity without losing sight of the present. These poems show how language and structure may be experimented with more daringly and creatively, revealing how the subjects we constantly confront and ponder are really limitless. Time Is a Mother is both a coming back and a forging forward. It is brave and prophetic, and it is a monument to kindness in the face of cruelty.