Ocean Vuong
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award
One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016"
One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April"
Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal
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Français
Description
Recueil de poésie traduit en dix langues. Mémoire d'encrier détient les droits en langue française. Ciel de nuit blessé par balles est résolument un chef-d'œuvre qui peint la vie humaine dans toutes ses facettes : l'exil, l'amour, l'enfance, le sexe, la violence. La poésie américaine retrouve ses grandes obsessions avec ce poète vietnamien de 28 ans.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Erudito, delicado, desgarrador, Vuong enraíza su poesía en el mito grecolatino y la combina con la musicalidad de su Vietnam natal para abordar, con un coraje lleno de belleza, el exilio, la guerra y la homofobia. Escribe con la humildad y el orgullo de quien se sabe el primer alfabetizado en una familia en la que la poesía siempre fue oral y demuestra su amor por la lengua y el país que le sirvieron de refugio. Pero no por ello deja de manifestar...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...