When I was growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, it was not uncommon to hear gunshots at night. And yet, we emphasize stability as progress, the unchanging form, and queerness rejects that and offers a wild, often chaotic yet expansive lesson in what is possible. broken by the names of flowers. Either way, please allow us to re-introduce ourselves: Every morning when he wakes up, poet and Zen Buddhist Ocean Vuong asks himself if he will use fear or compassion as a fuel for his work. Their wings throbbing. For Ocean Vuong, “queerness begins with permission to change … it invites innovation; it is larger than sexuality and gender; it is action.”  For him, this action begins in stillness so that “silence becomes an architecture under the agency of intent.”. It’s on our money, on our schools, in our pledge of allegiance, it is woven into our triumphs and tragedies—God bless America, pray for America. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award; and a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. By continuing, you agree to Tricycle’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Alexandra Barylski is a senior editor at Marginalia Review of Books and an award-winning poet, teacher, and author of  the chapbook “Imprecise Perishing” (Finishing Line Press). a new tongue with no telling Please check your email to confirm your subscription. With it, we’ve built miraculous things: cathedrals, temples, schools, and shelters. Subscribe for access to video teachings, monthly films, e-books, and our 29-year archive. Design by Point Five. I’m thinking of your references to Christian and Catholic icons and prayers in your early work, but also in Night Sky, and I am wondering what draws you to the language of these other faith traditions or how those languages help you shape your religious sense of the body? Now here is your father inside So yes, it is a very monastic relationship with the page. And they joked that he should actually be called Achilles. AB: That brings me to a question about web-presence and younger poets. I hope there will be more, but that would be the exception, not the expected. Ocean Vuong (born Vinh Quoc Vuong) is a Vietnamese-American poet and novelist, born on a farm outside Saigon in 1988. Ocean Vuong is a Brooklyn-based Vietnam-born writer whose shy demeanor is eclipsed by the grandeur of his poems. We possess this idea that salvaging and repair is automatic progress. And so, every day before school, my mother would get me to the altar, and we would start to name the roll call, the people in our family, and try to bless them and think about them and tend to them and to ourselves. How could I go deeper into my own vulnerability if I were to perpetually exist in a public space, if I had to perform (as we all must do, to some extent) in order to participate in society? Joseph Goldstein. We met at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library for his roundtable discussion with poet Rickey Laurentiis, an event co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature and the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group. There are days where I say, “I’m too terrified, I’m too tired, I’m too depressed, I can’t do it.” Those days happen. The Italians refused to refurbish it. We’re sorry, there was an error. Peter Bienkowski Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). No one is free from the pandemic’s impact, including Lion’s Roar. In this sense, the retreat becomes the journey of inner questioning and exploration. Over the past month, over 400,000 readers like you have visited our site, reading almost a million pages and streaming over 120,000 hours of video teachings. Please try again. Does it diminish the life a poet might be called to lead in these loud-mouthed times? The premise of the avatar invites, or even pressures, a fabrication and upkeep of an edited and curated self that is put up to all the social pressures and scrutiny of one’s actual self. I swear, you will wake – & mistake these walls for skin. Tricycle is a nonprofit that depends on reader support. Maybe we pray on our knees because the lord. & I took nothing. So I decided to stop seeing social media as an extension of me-ness but rather a conduit for my mind, an interactive notebook where I can correspond, collaborate and communicate with the world the way I hope my poems might do. Vuong is one of the youngest fellows chosen this year, alongside 30-year old artist Cameron Rowland. The thing I fear most is that one day I might wake up without hope. Op aarde schitteren we even. When I went up to Milan, I was given a tour of the Palazzo Real, which was destroyed by American bombers during Mussolini’s reign. There is so much Deprivation of this poetry explains all forms of demoralization.”. The planes . The room was full before the discussion began and although chairs were added for those coming in late, for some it was standing room only. We live in a culture that fetishizes the new and the young, the debut, and that becomes its own commodity. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and he immigrated to the US at the age of two as a refugee. Taking up space that excludes others is a kind of psychic conquest. How do you view the poet’s role and responsibilities in America and what might this have to do with our web-identities? The ego is replicated and stretched beyond its reach and once breached, leaves us voided. Jack Kornfield If you are going to do something that is so difficult, if you are going to do something that has so little chance of success, like being a poet, why not permit yourself something wild and grandiose in the craft? De schrijver van de brief, de achtentwintigjarige Hondje, legt een familiegeschiedenis bloot die voor zijn geboorte begon - een geschiedenis waarvan het brandpunt in Vietnam ligt. De debuutroman van de dichter Ocean Vuong is een schokkend familieportret en een indringend relaas van een eerste liefde, waarin de bezwerende kracht van taal en verhalen wordt aangewend als middel om te overleven en kloven te overbruggen.Op aarde schitteren we even is een brief van een zoon aan zijn moeder die niet kan lezen.

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