If you like this, read: Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Vintage, 2016, $26.95, buy here, borrow here), Vuong's first full-length collection, which is haunted by fathers and explores loss, conflict and desire. Akin to On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous he addresses the themes of grief and passage of time in the poems. Time is a mother - but of what, exactly? The poems bodied forth offer no easy answers. Written by Stanley Warhol In his debut novel, Vuong wrote on a relationship between mother and son, in this poetry collection he writes on the aftershock of his mother’s death. Here, and elsewhere in the collection, what one gets is a sense of Vuong searching for something. 'Time is a motherf*****, I said to the gravestones, alive, absurd./ Body, doorway that you are, be more than what I'll pass through.' In Time Is a Mother, Poet Ocean Vuong Explores Love and Loss Time Entertainment Books Grieving His Mother's Death, Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself Poet Ocean Vuong. Not Even, like another poem in the collection, Dear Rose, is in some ways an attempt to come to terms with his mother's death. Time Is a Mother Hardcover Apby Ocean Vuong (Author) 4.5 564 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 15.82 42 Used from 10.60 41 New from 11.95 3 Collectible from 45.00 Paperback 17.00 1 New from 17. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow./It's been proven difficult to dance to machine-gun fire.' The narrator says wryly: 'Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns to gold./Our sorrow Midas touched. In the poem Not Even, a woman at a Brooklyn party tells the narrator he is 'so lucky' - 'You're gay plus you get to write about war and stuff'. 'I want to/take care of our planet/because I need a beautiful/graveyard,' says the narrator of The Last Prom Queen In Antarctica, who is 'all talk. Author : Ocean Vuong Pages : pages Publisher : Penguin Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 58582927 ISBN-13 : 9780593300237. Even at his most self-indulgent, Vuong is self-aware.

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong