Book Club Review: Ocean Vuong — Time is a Mother

Speaking on my introduction to Vuong, grief, Kendrick Lamar and hope.

The cover for Time is a Mother, via Penguin Random House.

I read Time is a Mother in less than ideal circumstances. Usually with poetry, I read it in bed in short chunks as I often get the feeling that I stop taking it in properly after around 10–15 pages. This wasn’t the case at all with Time is a Mother, which was my…