Time is a Mother John Wieners the grandeur of its lament

the grandeur of its lament

but the schoolgirl I was

Vertaald uit het Galicisch door Mariolein Sabarte Belacortu

These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception

as she repeatedly demonstrates

Time is a Mother John Wieners the grandeur of its lamentOcean Vuong In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid,