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Time Is a Mother

By Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Unabridged — 1 hours, 43 minutes
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By Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Unabridged — 1 hours, 43 minutes
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If you were as moved by Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous as we were, then now is the moment to absorb his poetry in Time Is a Mother. And then we urge you to go back to his debut poetry book, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Voung’s lyrical writing runs through all his books — whether poetry or prose. You will always do right to keep his work at the ready.

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” -The Washington Post

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong


How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part

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