{"product_id":"9780593300251","title":"Time Is a Mother","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow else do we return to ourselves but to fold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe page so it points to the good part\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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  \u003ci\u003eOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection \u003ci\u003eNight  Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eTime Is a Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis a return  and a forging forth all at once.","brand":"Ocean Vuong","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-06-06","offer_id":44151961911551,"sku":"9780593300251","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_557fc40d-698d-4782-b6f1-68ed72ecdf6f.jpg?v=1686115992","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593300251","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}