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A review by barbz
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
emotional
reflective
4.0
As always, Ocean Vuong's prose cuts through the page making it seem like flesh, alive and bleeding. Or maybe it is as he said, yellow pains pressed into american letters turn to gold.
In his first poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Vuong explores a youthful kind of pain, the kind that is brutal and stings even after it heals; here on the other hand, that pain comes with a sense of future, a strangely soothing sorrow.
From the loss of his mother, to worries about his relationships, job and father up to talks about the universe and climate change, race and fancy parties. There isn't a single page that doesn't pull you in.
Lyrical and sharp, humorous and kind, Ocean Vuong's writing is like a few glasses of red wine.
In his first poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Vuong explores a youthful kind of pain, the kind that is brutal and stings even after it heals; here on the other hand, that pain comes with a sense of future, a strangely soothing sorrow.
From the loss of his mother, to worries about his relationships, job and father up to talks about the universe and climate change, race and fancy parties. There isn't a single page that doesn't pull you in.
Lyrical and sharp, humorous and kind, Ocean Vuong's writing is like a few glasses of red wine.