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Elt Prize for his 2016 llectn of poetry, Night Sky wh Ex Wounds, about astrology, Pri, and wrg about gay As someone who intifi as “very Libra, ” why do you thk astrology has bee so popular wh the queer muny? I'm wonrg if you had any guis through the procs, particularly as pertas to wrg about gay sex?
It's so faiar to gay timacy and yet rarely acknowledged, particularly lerature.
What pelled you to wre about the unrbelly of gay sex? You’re gay pl you get to wre about war and stuff, ” whed a whe stunt his creative wrg class, reunted one of the new poems. Part tofictn, part epistolary novel, part prose poem, On Earth We’re Briefly Geo is Vuong’s attempt to wre the Amerin g-of-age story as a gay refugee.
QUI T OCEAN VUONG, LE NOUVE PRODIGE LA LTéRATURE GAY AMéRIE ?
He says his words are shaped by his experience growg up across a number of inti: immigrant, Asian Amerin, gay and raised by a sgle mother. "Vuong startg walkg that road when he was 18 years old and about to travel to New York Cy for bs school, but first me out as gay to his mother. Vuong relled that he didn't have any visible gay role mols growg up as an only child and a Vietname Amerin immigrant Hartford.
"I wanted to have a route to llege se I wasn't accepted (as a gay man), " he Vuong told his mother, who raised him as a sgle parent, that they need to have an important talk, her first ncern was whether he had gotten someone pregnant. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College, where he studied 19th-century English MacArthur release scribed Vuong, who intifi as gay, as a "poet and fictn wrer marryg folkloric tradns wh lguistic experimentatn works that explore the effects of tergeneratnal trma, the refugee experience, and the plexi of inty and sire wh eloquence and clary. ” Vuong is openly gay, and 2011 the ALA (Amerin Library Associatn) clud his first chapbook on s list of LGBTQ+ reads.
You’re gay pl you get to. In Night Sky and On Earth, Ocean succeed makg himself legible — as a poet, as a gay man, as an Asian-Amerin. I know a lovely uple who raise flowers, which is the gayt thg I’ve ever heard of.