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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.
Three months before the novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous was published, Vuong's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she died in November 2019. [37] Vuong wrote Time Is a Mother while in mourning. According to him, this collection of poems is the search for life after this heartbreaking event. [38] [39]
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.
"One of the things I learned as a son, maybe as a writer too, is that love is about acceptance."
Announced on Monday’s episode of “The A24 Podcast,” the indie film and TV company revealed that a theatrical version of Ocean Vuong’s novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” is in ...
Vuong considered the poem "Dear Rose", originally published in Harper's Magazine but later revised for his poetry collection, to be the "spine" of the collection. [2] [4] Vuong said that this is his "proudest book" as he "didn’t compromise anything." [5] He compared Time Is a Mother to his novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: