"Ocean Vuong is More Than Just a Sad Gay, Asian Poet"
"Vuong’s bibliography, including his celebrated poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) as well as his debut novel, has consistently engaged with themes of war, trauma, queer identity, and the immigrant experience. His writing is known for its poetic beauty, formal innovation, and unflinching honesty. Yet, this very success and his chosen subject matter have sparked nuanced conversations within the literary world, particularly within the Vietnamese and Vietnamese American, and Asian queer communities."
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What Sparks Poetry: Kai Ihns on Building Community
"I think this dispersed but somehow coherent ‘I’ that exists in relation and as a problem of negotiating how one is oriented… I’m interested in this because I do feel like it’s a way poetry can process its world, in this case a world that requires complex negotiations of… realities, and the selves that can exist in them. You have to actively negotiate what you think the ground is, all the time… and that partially determines how you can be in relation." |
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