Ocean Vuong comes to BAM for an evening of conversation with writer-organizer Mahogany L. Browne to celebrate the launch of his highly anticipated second poetry collection, Time Is a Mother. In these poems, 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. In concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with memory, 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.

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