![]() He is not afraid of the word as a tool to take one step beyond fatalism. With coherence to the rest of his work, Vuong refuses finality, but honors death by acknowledging the depth of grief, which is also the depth of love. But the book’s intimacy reaches out to readers, as if to say: you know when you know about what it’s like to lose someone you love. It is hard to make an unfinished feeling into a warm one. Throughout the beginning of the book there are slight lines printed on the pages like the lines of a notebook, but they are neither consistent, nor self-referential. It is a relatively short compilation that centers around the death of his mother, a center which is not entirely substantial. In 2019 he published the novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which won him acclaim and the MacArthur Fellowship. ![]() Time Is a Mother is Ocean Vuong’s second book of poetry. In the end, time, like water, has been here all along, it is that which we share. ![]() And, upon contemplation, time does have similar properties to water: in the way it wavers in the way it melts in the way it stands, a thick mist before us. Ocean Vuong runs his fingers through time as if it is water in his new book Time Is a Mother. ![]()
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