Writer Ocean Vuong In an Intense Reading of 'Time Is a Mother' | Louisiana Channel
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- The acclaimed poet got the chance to write in Emily Dickinson’s room, where “something happened” according to Ocean Vuong. Here he reads the beautiful result, the poem ‘Nothing’ from the collection of poetry called ‘Time Is a Mother’, 2022.
“I grew up in New England. And I always wanted to pay homage to this region by writing a poem about shoveling snow,” Ocean Vuong introduces the reading of a poem from the acclaimed collection ‘Time Is a Mother’. Vuong tells the story behind the poem “which was troubling” him for a long time until he was invited to work in Emily Dickinson’s room for one hour. “Naturally, I am not going to write anything in there”, he said, “I am just going to listen and leave. But something happened in that room…”
‘Nothing’ begins:
“We are shoveling snow, this man and I, our backs coming closer along the drive. It’s so quiet I can hear every flake on my coat. I used to cry in a genre no one read. What a joke, they said, on fire. ”
Ocean Vuong was born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut, in a working-class family of a nail salon and factory laborers. He was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study International Marketing. Without completing his first term, he dropped out of Business school and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a BA in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He subsequently received his MFA in Poetry from NYU. He currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and serves as a tenured Professor in the Creative Writing MFA Program at NYU. He published the bestselling novel, ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ in 2019, and it has been translated into 37 languages. His first collection of poetry, ‘Night Sky with Exit Wounds’ appeared in 2016. Vuong is a recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 Vuong published the collection of poetry’ Time Is a Mother’
Ocean Vuong was reading (before being interviewed) at the Louisiana Literature festival, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, in August 2022.
Cameras: Simon Weyhe & Rasmus Quistgaard
Edit: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022
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I used to cry in a genre no one read ...... This line opens a realm of new and unexperienced pain and sorrow...
Ocean is so beautiful in soul and just- everything. Their voice evokes such emotion that can pull at even the tightest of heartstrings. Ocean makes me want to write again and keep writing and then write some more until I cease to be nothing, but what I have written.
And?
Darn it, I can’t cry enough, I feel most alive in the presence of Ocean’s poetry
are you a bot?
@@lilbyte3
What a great use of your intelligence, insulting a stranger online and wasting your own time while at it. Who’s a good boy?
@@xinner8098 In what way are you insulted? Should you not find being called a bot honorable? I understand that in your culture the title of "Bot" is taken with great renown.
@@xinner8098 Tell me more about the tears you shed basking in the peerless majesty of Ocean Vuong.
@@lilbyte3 in case this is a genuine misunderstanding, being called a bot is not a good thing at all. Any time I’ve seen that phrasing, it’s used to discredit someone’s abilities in some way. If you didn’t intend any ill, I retract my original response and I bid you a good day.
Ocean is Truly a master of his Craft
I didn't know I needed to hear this. ❤
People like this comment more often so that I could be reminded of this gem every now and then.
I am touched like I was over 30 years ago studying, reading, and teaching poetry, for the first time in years, by this poem!! I’m now speechless.
Ocean Vuong, Thank you for sharing your beautiful gift of writing! I love and admire your work very much.
Listening to this reduced me to tears. The way he reads the line "Peter, Peter..." with such force and intention and need... it really cracked me up. Thanks Ocean
Love your voice Ocean. Brought me to tears
best unintentional asmr
Thank you
first time i cried from poetry
Moving ...had me in tears..🥲🤗
his voice is so sweet❤
Beautiful. I love Ocean Vuong's work.
So beautiful and captivating.
i love him so much...
music and meter are essential parts in poetry and without them a poem lacks perfection to say the least and what is a poem if not a living manifestation of perfection. Salahaddin Hashim Alhusam
It’s amazing
beautiful
A Masterpiece! 💗
*Watch our interview with Ocean Vuong right here:*
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lovely
Gripping ❤
why an i crying?
WOW!
Wow
❤️❤️❤️
nice!
This makes me feel something
That last line gagged me
So sweet
OMYGOD
Wow 😲
EVERY FLAKE ON MY COAT HAS A LIFEEEEEEEE!!!! ocean vuong is so banal he makes the sound of a grinding blender sound like Dvorak.
If I was in the audience, I'd be thinking- "Okay, so where can I hang myself?".
His voice is so damn sexy. 🧡
Really wanted to see how a recipient of the T.S. Eliot award sounds like. I wouldn’t call him bad, but I don’t think T.S. Eliot would even allow his volumes to be published, nevermind him winning awards for them. The guy can paint a picture, true, but his technical ability is lacking, and his philosophical (as it were) punch lines are mere instagram aphorisms written beautifully. The poems are better read than listened to. His cadence sounds like a dying engine.
So which contemporary poets would you suggest to read today?
@@zzzxx1474 I honestly have no idea. I’m inclined to favor the lyrics of artists such as Alex Turner or Grian Chatten (Fontaines D.C.) over 21st century poetry. Contemporary poetry really seems to have strayed from the technical aspects of the art to an absurd degree. I found, though, plenty of good poems in journals such as The Paris Review or Poetry Foundation. But I doubt those authors have a good time when it comes to selling their volumes.
this guy's net worth is $5 million for this type of shit? Mind-blowing, in capitalism people will buy and pay for everything. Shitty poety writers like Rupi Kaur also do something very similar make some aesthetic book these young kids love to put on a shelf and tiktok about....... sad reality indeed Dostovesky would be committing suicide watching this.
I respectfully disagree.
@@melissa.9694 Understandable.
Jfc
What does jfc mean? I knew, but I forget.
This is voice of women.
this guy's net worth is $5 million for this type of shit? Mind-blowing, in capitalism people will buy and pay for everything.
Wait till this dude find out Poem has been around since forever, thousands of years before capitalism.
You two remind me of that saying - 'those that can't do, teach'. In your case, you'd make terrible teachers. Not sure why you'd even comment on this 😂. You're criticism of him is like a jealous child watching his mother breastfeeding the world's population. Get used to it guys that can't do anything 😅😅😅
capitalism has finally figured out how to commodify poetry, and the consumer, having little or no exposure to the art form in its glory, sucks it up.