Ocean Vuong's new collection, Time Is A Mother, is about his grief after losing family members.
Vuong told Morning Edition's Rachel Martin that time is different now that he has lost his mother: "When I look at my life since she died in 2019, I only see two days: Today when she's not here, and the big, big yesterday when I had her."
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