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Ocean Vuong

A winner of a 2014 Pushcart Prize, Ocean Vuong has received fellowships and awards from Kundiman, Poets House, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The Academy of American Poets. His poems appear in Poetry, The Nation, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, TriQuarterly and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. He lives in Queens, NY.

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Ocean Vuong

Dec 20, 2022

From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.

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Ocean Vuong

From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation