Time is a Mother Fernando Pessoa

Time is a Mother Fernando PessoaOcean Vuong 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 Were 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,

Ik moest voortdurend tot de conclusie komen dat mijn commentaar volstrekt overbodig was

een liefhebster van natuur en cultuur

Jonas Beckers

he celebrates family and friendship and probes the limits of our understanding of the world and our place in it

Abu-Zeid has beautifully recreated these poems in English

The poems are organized in chronological order by first publication or first recording

Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate

In Speling zoeken zijn die vijf bundels

Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctions—the bread queues

essay and poetics with the eye of an archivist

the suicide of Nerval

Zijn zoektocht leidt de ene keer tot strakke gedichten en klassieke versvormen