Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › ocean-vuongOcean Vuong | Poetry Foundation

   www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › ocean-vuong

   • Cached

   Learn about the life and poetry of Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet and novelist who explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. Find his books, awards, and translations on the Poetry Foundation website.

   • Aubade With Burning City

     From The Poetry Magazine Podcast February 2017. In this...

   • Not Even This

     Not Even This - Ocean Vuong | Poetry Foundation

   • A Little Closer to The Edge

     A Little Closer to The Edge - Ocean Vuong | Poetry...

   • Toy Boat

     Toy Boat - Ocean Vuong | Poetry Foundation

   • Essay on Craft

     Essay on Craft - Ocean Vuong | Poetry Foundation

   • DetoNation

     From The Poetry Magazine Podcast February 2017. In this...

2. interestingliterature.com › best-ocean-vuong-poems10 of the Best Ocean Vuong Poems Everyone Should Read

   interestingliterature.com › best-ocean-vuong-poems

   Explore the poetry of Ocean Vuong, a Vietnamese-born American poet who writes about war, family, love, and identity. Read some of his most powerful poems, such as 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous', 'Aubade with Burning City', and 'Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong'.

3. www.oceanvuong.com › poemsPoems | oceanvuong

   www.oceanvuong.com › poems

   • Cached

   Read poems by Ocean Vuong, the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, in English and in translation. Explore his interviews, awards, and publications.

4. www.poetryfoundation.org › poetrymagazine › poemsOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | Poetry Magazine

   www.poetryfoundation.org › poetrymagazine › poems

   • Cached

   A poem by Ocean Vuong about hunger, violence, love, and loss in a Vietnamese American family. The poem explores themes of identity, memory, and language through vivid images and metaphors.

5. www.oceanvuong.com › booksThe Poems | oceanvuong

   www.oceanvuong.com › books

   • Cached

   The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong. In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.

6. People also ask

   What is Vuong's most famous poem?

   • 1. ‘ On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous ’. ‘Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?’ asks Vuong in this, one of his best-known poems (he would reuse the poem’s title for his debut novel a few years later).

   10 of the Best Ocean Vuong Poems Everyone Should Read

   interestingliterature.com/2024/03/best-ocean-vuong-poems/

   See all results for this question

   Who is Ocean Vuong?

   • He is the former managing editor of Thrush Press and currently lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, where he is on faculty in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY).

   Ocean Vuong | Poetry Foundation

   www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ocean-vuong

   See all results for this question

   What is Vuong's message in this poem?

   • He reassures himself not to worry and not to be afraid, but this fairly simple message is delivered using imagery which is strikingly original and thought-provoking. And this poem seems to be the perfect note on which to conclude this pick of Vuong’s poems.

   10 of the Best Ocean Vuong Poems Everyone Should Read

   interestingliterature.com/2024/03/best-ocean-vuong-poems/

   See all results for this question

   What makes Vuong a good poet?

   • "Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition....His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."

   The Poems | oceanvuong

   www.oceanvuong.com/books

   See all results for this question

7. www.poetryfoundation.org › articles › 157878Nothing to Hide Under All This Sun - Poetry Foundation

   www.poetryfoundation.org › articles › 157878

   • Cached

   Essay. Nothing to Hide Under All This Sun. In Time Is a Mother, Ocean Vuong puzzles over language—and his own history. By Paul Mendez. Art by Danlin Zhang. As the master of a second language, one of Ocean Vuong ’s great labors is to question the meanings behind idioms and figures of speech that native speakers often take for granted.

8. Images

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

   View all