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Poetry

Time Is a Mother

by Ocean Vuong

$18.00Paperback, first published 2022

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Vuong's second collection, written after his mother's death: poems about grief, survival and the strange tenderness of staying alive.

Sam recommends

“Read it slowly, out loud if you can. It's the collection people come back to buy for a friend.”
Sam Okonkwo, nonfiction and poetry
Author
Ocean Vuong
Format
Paperback
First published
2022
Section
Poetry

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