Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong is an American poet, essayist, novelist and photographer. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Fellowship the same year.
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When I really assess Western culture in how it grapples with other bodies and other ecologies of thinking, at the end of the day, my response is: please catch up.
On how Western culture fails to realize the interconnectedness of metaphors in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (March 2022)
We’re talking about a claim to storytelling. We are taught that a valid or useful education is one in medicine, science, bioengineering.
On the Western idea of claiming storytelling in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (March 2022)
The world can misread us, and they will, and they have, and they won’t stop. But we do not have to misread ourselves.
On the dilemma of being Asian American in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (March 2022)
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About this person
Ocean Vuong is an American poet, essayist, novelist and photographer. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Fellowship the same year. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.
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