Ocean Vuong in conversation with Jericho Brown - Time Is a Mother
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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.
A Cappella Books proudly welcomes the acclaimed poet and National Book Award-nominated author of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” to the Inman Park United Methodist Church on Thursday, April 14, at 7 PM. Vuong will discuss his latest work, "Time Is a Mother” with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Jericho Brown.
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About the Book
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 cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter 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 perennially 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.
About the Author
Ocean 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 The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
About the Conversation Partner
Jericho Brown is author of the ”The Tradition,” for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, ”Please,” won the American Book Award. His second book, ”The New Testament,” won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, ”The Tradition” won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.
