Title: Time Is a Mother
Description: 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 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.
Subjects: nyt:hardcover-fiction=2022-04-24, New York Times bestseller, Mothers and sons, Poetry, Mères et fils, Poésie, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)