'It’s the only book I’ve written that I don’t regret,' said author Ocean Vuong on his new poetry collection
By Clare Bucknell | Photography by Gioncarlo Valentine for WSJ. Magazine“It’s the only book I’ve written that I don’t regret."won the praise of both the literary establishmentNight Sky with Exit Wounds,"absolutely perfect."Despite all the admiration and attention, it has taken Vuong a while to feel able to express all sides of himself as a poet, to, was published, a friend asked him where his typical humor was. But he believed he had no choice.
“It’s so rare for a Vietnamese writer to write our history. It’s the only war where the quote-unquote technical losers ended up creating the culture around it. A lot of white folks...end up writing about Vietnam. It’s a rare moment for me to finally write about my community. And so I had to do it with a sober mask.”, Vuong continues to grapple with themes of violence and loss, in particular the loss of his mother, Rose, who died of cancer in 2019.
One of its major influences is the work of the New York School—embodied by poets such as Frank O’Hara and Bernadette Mayer—whose humorous, offbeat style Vuong has long admired and now feels ready to enact in his work.“The most normal things about me are my shoulders. You’ve been warned” .Listen to Vuong read an excerpt from "The Bull," a poem published in
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