--- product_id: 667624043 title: "Time Is a Mother" price: "AED 114" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/667624043-time-is-a-mother store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Time Is a Mother **Price:** AED 114 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Time Is a Mother - **How much does it cost?** AED 114 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/667624043-time-is-a-mother) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” — The Washington Post The New York Times- bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part 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 We’re 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, brave, and propulsive, these 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 fellowship, 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. Review: This author has my heart - One of my favourite contemporary writers Review: amazing writing skills - the book is written in reverse, prepare for tipsy turvey ride. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #999,180 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #444 in North American Literature Textbooks #2,679 in Poetry (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 940 Reviews | ## Images ![Time Is a Mother - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81V4huIl7iL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This author has my heart *by B***. on 18 August 2025* One of my favourite contemporary writers ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ amazing writing skills *by S***I on 29 January 2025* the book is written in reverse, prepare for tipsy turvey ride. ### ⭐⭐ just didn't work for me *by V***A on 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 - Night Sky with Exit Wounds - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous --- ## 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.ae/products/667624043-time-is-a-mother](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/667624043-time-is-a-mother) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-07-07*