ARGONAUT BOOKS

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Reviews Ocean Vuong, one of my favourite contemporary poets, expanded his body of work beautifully in Time Is a MotherObserverHaunting, inconsolable, and at the same time a playful, generous in spirit, tender, inimitable book. The poet's late mother is these pages' muse and guardian spirit, as poem after poem Vuong redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, w...Read More