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Time is a Mother

Door Ocean Vuong

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#330080-VB31
Titel
Time is a Mother
Auteur
Vuong, Ocean
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Jonathan Cape
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
1787333841
ISBN13
9781787333840
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting


Discover the powerful new collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part

'Tender and heartbreaking... Delving back into the visceral themes that made his 2019 novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous a revelation' TIME

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. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.

The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky wit
... (Lees verder)h 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. 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.

'Further confirms Vuong as one of the most important poets of his generation' Andrew McMillan, author of Physical
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