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Time is a Mother

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內容簡介 繞著生命碎片療傷，直視性侵暴力，溫柔如常越裔美籍作家王鷗行以詩集《有著出口傷的夜空》獲得英國艾略特獎，成為該獎項最年輕得獎詩人。在詩集《時間是位母親》中，王鷗行在母親過世後的震悸餘波中探求生命，體現身處悲傷卻又必須克服悲傷這種似非而是的矛盾。詩人在記憶中穿梭，回應首部小說《此生，你我皆短暫燦爛》的課題，直面失親、家庭的意義，以及常年破碎的美國精神有何可喜。Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'Tender and heartbreaking... Delving back into the visceral themes that made his 2019 novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous a revelation' TIMEHow else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good partIn 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. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. Vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicentre of the break.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, 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 live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.'Further confirms Vuong as one of the most important poets of his generation' Andrew McMillan, author of Physical

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ocean VuongOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, and the New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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