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Poetry. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker a literal refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee from his own skin, burning with the heat of awakening eroticism. In this world, we're all refugees from something. As two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard says: "Ocean manages to imbue the desperation of his being alive—with a savage beauty. It is not just that Ocean can render pain as a kind of loveliness, but that his poetic line will not let you forget the hurt or the garish brilliance of your triumph; will not let you look away. These poems shatter us detail by detail because Ocean leaves nothing unturned, because every lived thing in his poems demands to be fed by you; to nourish you in turn. You will not leave these poems dissatisfied. They will fill you utterly."
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"I was born because someone was starving..." ends one of Ocean Vuong's poems, and in that poem, as in every other of his poems, Ocean manages to imbue the desperation of his being alive, with a savage beauty. It is not just that Ocean can render pain as a kind of loveliness, but that his poetic line will not let you forget the hurt or the garish brilliance of your triumph; will not let you look away. These poems shatter us detail by detail because Ocean leaves nothing unturned, because every lived thing in his poems demands to be fed by you; to nourish you in turn. You will not leave these poems dissatisfied. They will fill you utterly."
-Roger Bonair-Agard, author ofTarnish and Masquerade
"Ocean Vuong's masterful poetry is something any literary enthusiast should experience. His poems share a worldly sadness that paradoxically recalls the joyful magic that can spring forth unexpectedly in life. Vuong's words hold inside them a wisdom that speaks across and through generations of people who have suffered and then go on to persevere. Burnings is definitely for any reader who is looking to come in from out of the cold."
-The Lantern Review
"Ocean Vuong is a poet of rare lyrical gifts and urgent stories to tell. "Memory," he writes, "has not forgotten you." No, it hasn't forgotten the burning city or the taste of blood nor the hanging of rags or the violence of war. Vuong's poems are testament to the enduring power of poetry and its place in this human universe."
-Hoa Nguyen, author of Hectate Lochia and Kiss A Bomb Tattoo
About the Author:
-Roger Bonair-Agard, author ofTarnish and Masquerade
"Ocean Vuong's masterful poetry is something any literary enthusiast should experience. His poems share a worldly sadness that paradoxically recalls the joyful magic that can spring forth unexpectedly in life. Vuong's words hold inside them a wisdom that speaks across and through generations of people who have suffered and then go on to persevere. Burnings is definitely for any reader who is looking to come in from out of the cold."
-The Lantern Review
"Ocean Vuong is a poet of rare lyrical gifts and urgent stories to tell. "Memory," he writes, "has not forgotten you." No, it hasn't forgotten the burning city or the taste of blood nor the hanging of rags or the violence of war. Vuong's poems are testament to the enduring power of poetry and its place in this human universe."
-Hoa Nguyen, author of Hectate Lochia and Kiss A Bomb Tattoo
Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press 2010) and is currently an undergraduate English Major at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award, the Connecticut Poetry Society's Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. His work appear in Word Riot, Diode, Lantern Review, Softblow, Asia Literary Review, and PANK among others. Poems have also been translated into Hindi, Russian, Korean, and Vietnamese. He lives in Brooklyn and is an avid supporter of animal rights and veganism.
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- PublisherSibling Rivalry Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0578070596
- ISBN 13 9780578070599
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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