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Time Is a Mother

The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.
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128 pages

Average rating: 8.25

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Lanie Bookshelf
Nov 10, 2023
6/10 stars
3.5 stars

I enjoyed it but many poems lacked deeper meaning but overall it was a pretty good time.
winona_reads
Mar 28, 2023
8/10 stars
'how else do we return to ourselves but to fold the page so it points to the good part'
'how come the past tense is always longer? is the memory of a song the shadow of a sound or is that too much?'
'i'm on the cliff of myself & these aren't wings, they're futures'
'it doesn't have to make sense to be real'
'the air holds your voice as it holds its own'
'o human, i'm not mad at you for winning but that you never wished for more.'
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