"Failing Better: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong" interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen for LA Review of Books (2019) [ID'd]
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by the way ocean vuong is a TENURED PROFESSOR at nyu who dropped the most pathetic and cringe series of instagram stories comparing people criticising his verse for being cringe diaspora poetry to Palestinian poets and Edward Said while his precarious colleagues, undergrads, and grad students are facing arrests and armed police for protesting against Palestinian genocide on campus. Not only he’s a shitty poet he’s also completely spineless and tone deaf 😭
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tenderness is in the hands
― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)
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— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'
[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight
& all my friends are three years away.
My mother said I could be anything
I wanted — but I chose to live.]
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Ocean Vuong, from “Reasons for Staying.” [ID in alt text]
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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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"Gardening with the Son I Will Never Have", Ocean Vuong, Burnings
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Palestinian Writer, Susan Abulhawa
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Headfirst, Ocean Vuong
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