For many immigrants, the best-case scenario is that their children will never really understand them. Think of a woman from Vietnam, the daughter of a farm girl and a nameless G. There she raises a son, who was born on a rice farm but grows up in the back rooms of Hartford nail salons, and becomes not just the first person in the family to attend school past the sixth grade but a poet who wins prizes and is hailed in major magazines. The poet is Ocean Vuong. He is thirty years old, and teaches in the M. Eliot Prize for a first book. At the center of his work is the paradox of his situation: the grief and the freedom that accrue simultaneously as he writes his way toward and away from his forebears. Thus my mother exists. But as he began to write poetry, in childhood , he wrenched himself into the existence that would separate him from his family even as he honored them.
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In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. In a interview with Edward J. His work has been translated into Hindi, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese. Angel Nafis is paying attention. She talks with Danez and Franny about learning to rescale her sight, getting through grad school with some new skills in her pocket, activated charcoal, They talk remaking masculinity, flipping Danez and Franny dive deep with Divedapper creator, poet, professor, and voracious reader Kaveh Akhbar. The squad talks Twitter, trees, memorizing poems while in love, and the Milwaukee Bucks, plus Ocean Vuong on exploring fear, his family, and why turning your back on your work is a good idea. Prose Home Harriet Blog.
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Which means he was broke. If you worked your way to regional manager, you could make 60 grand a year. Or Hartford, Conn. At Brooklyn College, where he studied American literature after dropping out of business school, he bopped around cheap sublets and couches of newfound friends in the poetry community. One of his teachers was the poet and author Ben Lerner. For that vulnerability, he won the T. Eliot Prize and Whiting Award. After the accolades, people asked Vuong when he would write his next collection. When he shopped the new book around to publishers, it surprised some editors, including one who admitted to never thinking about Vietnamese nail-salon workers also dining at their workplaces.
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