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8. ‘ Not Even This ’. One of the longer poems on this list, ‘Not Even This’ is from Vuong’s second full-length collection, Time is a Mother (2022). Beginning with a casual, even off-hand ‘Hey’, the poem is one of Vuong’s most sustained poetic explorations of identity, and specifically his own.
Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence, dislocation, and an immigrant, queer America that carries trauma from other lands, still breathing. Vuong’s debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon, 2016), was named by the New York Times as a Top 10 Book ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Ocean Vuong, Poet: When my mother passed in 2019, my whole life kind of contracted into two days. And what I mean by that is that, when a loved one dies, you experience your life in just two days ...
Jul 1, 2020 · Ocean Vuong is a poet, writer, and professor whose work draws on his childhood as a Vietnamese refugee growing up in Hartford, Connecticut. His best-selling, 2019 debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , is written as a series of letters to the narrator’s mother, absent father, and first love, a boy named Trevor, with whom he has a ...
Apr 7, 2016 · April 7, 2016. For Vuong, who learned to read at eleven, colloquial English was “a destination.”. Photograph by Peter Bienkowski. Ocean Vuong is not an experimental poet, but he is a poet of ...
May 6, 2022 · I was at the Korean restaurant to meet Ocean Vuong, author, literary darling, MacArthur genius, rare celebrity poet and, I noticed, a bit of a fashion plate. But with one frantic tug, my boot ...
May 1, 2020 · Ocean Vuong is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at New York University. His new collection of poetry is Time Is a Mother . He is also the author of a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous , and the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds , which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award.
