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Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; born 14 October 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly /Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation , [ 2 ] 2016 Whiting Award , [ 3 ] and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize . [ 4 ]
The collections contends with Vuong's grief of having lost his mother, who passed in November of 2019, as well as suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Vuong said he experienced grief both as a son and also as a writer: "Like any child, I look at the blank page and I said, how do I play...the only place I could look to was the poems, because it was the only place I found linguistic ...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. [1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother.
“The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong (May 13) "The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong This year saw Vuong’s return to poetry collections with “Time is a Mother,” and 2025 is his ...
"One of the things I learned as a son, maybe as a writer too, is that love is about acceptance."
Past events at Yu & Me Books have included Sally Wen Mao, Neema Avashia, Nini Nguyen, Anton Hur, Susan Bernofsky, Sam Bett, Ocean Vuong, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Sayaka Murata. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 9 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 2 ] The bookstore also hosted a Lunar New Year pop-up with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to support Soar over Hate, a nonprofit.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. [1] The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017 [2] —which made him the youngest winner of the award at the time at 29 years old, as well as the second-ever debut poet to receive it.
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.