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"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through h... Full description
Table of Contents:
- The bull
- Snow theory
- Dear Peter
- Skinny dipping
- Beautiful short loser
- Old glory
- You guys
- Dear Sara
- American legend
- The last dinosaur
- Rise & shine
- The last prom queen in Antarctica
- Dear T
- Waterline
- Not even
- Amazon history of a former nail salon worker
- Nothing
- Scavengers
- Künstlerroman
- Reasons for staying
- Ars Poetica as the maker
- Toy boat
- The punctum
- Tell me something good
- No one knows the way to Heaven
- Amost human
- Dear Rose
- Woodworking at the end of the world.