Ocean Vuong | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2019
- Join us in the Rare Book Room as Ocean Vuong sits down with multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson to discuss his shattering new book.
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.
Jacqueline Woodson is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books including the 2016 New York Times-bestselling National Book Award finalist for adult fiction, Another Brooklyn. Her forthcoming adult novel, Red at the Bone, will publish in September. Among her many accolades, Woodson is a four-time National Book Award finalist, a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a two-time NAACP Image Award Winner, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award Winner. Her New York Times-bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, received the National Book Award in 2014. Woodson is also the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and recipient of the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. In 2015, she was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her family in New York.
Recorded June 5, 2019 - บันเทิง
Good Lord; the way this young man is expressing his thoughts and feelings - I'm totally blown away. And so humble, gentle!
Can't agree with you more !
So freakin' articulate it kills me!
This is the best interview in the history of interviews!
Ocean is a gift.
I will never overlook Ocean Vuong in my search for books to read in the future. How this young man came to such wisdom is a gift to our world. Thank you Ocean Gorgeous!
I could listen to him all day long
Watching this man in interviews is astonishing. He makes every question’s answer feel valuable. I can’t stop looking at videos of him because he tries his utmost every time to provide you with something meaningful.
Leave it to an immigrant to celebrate the English language. Ocean Vuong has added a certain richness to American literature.
Well, the majority of Americans are immigrants.
What an articulate and full of thought person - no qualifiers.
Totally !
i was gonna watch 5 minutes of this video and ended up glued to the screen. ocean's words really command you
I was tearing up listening to you Ocean. I just finished reading your book.
"They say that nothing lasts forever and I'm writing you in the voice of an endangered species"
You're indeed an endangered species.
Same!! I just finish it just a minutes ago and I dont know what to think now, it was so incredible
OMG my favorite authers in the same place.
Thank you.thanks.
His softness is so beautiful 🥲
I'm agree
Absolutely a wonderful event. So happy it was filmed and shared!! What a delightful conversation! Thank you!
I've just started the video and i already love the way he speaks, good lord 😭❤️
what a lovely person.
There’s something in his voice that make me want to tear up only by listening to it 🍀
can we just appreciate how he didn't once stutter reading the passage. he hold extreme power in his words.
I went from a casual glance of The Poets & writers magazine with Ocean Vuong's photo on the cover to being moved to tears watching and listening to Ocean recite some of his poems on TH-cam. What a treasure this gentle spirited poet is!
This man is an artist of words. Melodically beautiful, strong and so stimulating.
I know I'll probably get filtered out for timestamping, but around 37:30 was the part I saw from a short by TH-camr/writer Prince Shakur that made me search up this interview. With the prior statements about desiring what's essentially forbidden/not moving on (which I can also relate to), puts the clipped short in further perspective. I'm a year late on that clip, and four years late on this interview, but I'm glad to have caught this.
Dear Ocean Vuong, I am also an English Vietnamese poet from Canada. You're a real deal! Just love you and your works!
I was not able to make this reading though I very much wanted to, as it was sold out. So happy that it's online, and so proud of this wonderfully talented Vietnamese American writer. *ugly cry*
What a beautiful person he is. I'm so impressed by Ocean Vuong.
The respect these two writers have for each other is so moving. 💕🙌
The Ocean gives, and the Ocean takes. This one only gives!!
Wow, my goal is to speak English as eloquently as Ocean. Beautiful!
What a beautiful talk. I love listening to the sound of his voice. ❤
I've been crying the whole day then I came across this video. Now, my heart is full. Thank you, Ocean.
the host's reaction to his answers is exactly me watching this interview!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best books I have ever read. It was painfully gorgeous in so many ways.
12 min in and I already started weeping...Definitely have to get the audio book on top of the physical book now.
You share the same surname?
@@dianaswing Yes, we do. No relation though. It's a somewhat rare Chinese-Vietnamese surname.
FANTASTIC....HE IS GIFTED
What a beautiful reading and talk.
and oh my god he mentioned beloved. one of my favorite novels talked about by my favorite author?? what more can i ask for
So touched by Ocean’s book! Thanks so much!
Thank you, Ocean! You are a gift.
That reading was so powerful
loved this talk
the reading starts at 5:31
Brilliance!
As a member of the LGBTQI community, I felt deeply connected to the world of the novel.
I also feel that literary connection you speak of. Furthermore, through the curious coincidence of our shared family name I am inclined to feel a connection to you personally as well. Woodford is a relatively common name. We are probably not related. But , having looked at your saved videos it became clear that we seem to share numerous tastes and lifestyles. Just thought I would reach out and make this observation.
Donald Woodford Amazing! We should connect when it’s safe to do so!
So glad to read your prompt reply.
I'm curious to know more about you.
If you would like to write to me, you can do so at woodford.dp@yahoo.com
I would welcome an email from you and would reply.
So far as I know, self distancing still allows for electronic communication .
wow this is great
love you Ocean
I love him❤❤
I wish my name was Ocean.
ocean legend
31:34 omggg
Toni is from Ohio.
Is it just me or is that one person (three in from the left front row) incessantly but silently judging those who felt confident enough to ask Ocean questions? Very weird and distracting to feel that sense of entitlement through the screen lol