--- product_id: 340197730 title: "Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" brand: "ocean vuong" price: "€ 16.27" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/340197730-time-is-a-mother-from-the-author-of-on-earth store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous **Brand:** ocean vuong **Price:** € 16.27 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by ocean vuong - **How much does it cost?** € 16.27 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/340197730-time-is-a-mother-from-the-author-of-on-earth) ## Best For - ocean vuong enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ocean vuong brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 'One of the most important poets of his generation' ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical 'Powerful' DUA LIPA 'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for' ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic 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. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit. 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. 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. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 13.2 x 0.9 x 19.8 cm | | Generic Name | Book | | Importer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Isbn 10 | 1787333701 | | Isbn 13 | 978-1787333703 | | Item Weight | 123 g | | Language | English | | Packer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Print Length | 112 pages | | Publication Date | 8 June 2023 | | Publisher | Jonathan Cape | ## Images ![Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61n7KEt2INL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This author has my heart *by on Reviewed in India 18 August 2025* One of my favourite contemporary writers ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ amazing writing skills *by on Reviewed in India 29 January 2025* the book is written in reverse, prepare for tipsy turvey ride. ### ⭐⭐ just didn't work for me *by on Reviewed in India 3 July 2022* I tried very hard to like this book. I tried very hard to make sense of it even but couldn’t. Maybe this book isn’t meant for me, but I shall speak about what worked for me and what did not.Let me go back a little in time and recall the moment I finished reading “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”, and the rush and sheer melancholic feeling that came over me like a huge wave. That I still remember. I remember the anguish and the pain of the poems that I could comprehend, and they hit me so hard.I think to a large extent I also connected with his novel, “On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous” – and all that it had to say about relationships, about mothers and sons, about being queer and your relationship with the one person whose validation means the most to you (your mother, of course). And yet somehow, I couldn’t feel all of this and more while reading, “Time is a Mother”.“Time is a Mother” is a collection of poems in four parts, that mainly focuses on grief – in the wake of Vuong’s mother’s death, of loneliness, of being queer, of making sense of the world through one’s different phases of life, and ultimately it is also about acceptance, grieving, and moving on.The poems are heartbreaking (well, some of them for me were outstanding), and also lean toward prose style but I just didn’t get this collection, like maybe I should have. Maybe at the end of the day, this book wasn’t meant for this reader.It has some beautiful lines – this collection but on their own. They sadly do not culminate into something as beautiful overall when it comes to the complete poem. For instance, a poem “Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker” just didn’t make sense to me, and I tried so hard to look for the profundity but couldn’t. Some of the poems that did work for me were, “Not Even”, “Reasons for Staying”, and “Woodworking at the End of the World” – maybe because they made so much sense to me in all their fragility, tenderness, and in celebrating differences.Time is a Mother was a read I was so eager to read this year, and yet it just did not live up to Night Sky with Exit Wounds. It was just space and space and more blank space with a lot of words and sentences I couldn’t make sense of. ## Frequently Bought Together - Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Night Sky with Exit Wounds --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/340197730-time-is-a-mother-from-the-author-of-on-earth](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/340197730-time-is-a-mother-from-the-author-of-on-earth) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-09-28*