{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"time-is-a-mother-ocean-vuong","title":"Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.\" -\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow else do we return to ourselves but to fold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe page so it points to the good part\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship, 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 perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime Is a Mother\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a return and a forging forth all at once.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOcean Vuong \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections \u003ci\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur \"Genius\" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. 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