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Hace 6 días · Ocean Vuong’s “Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker” is a poem that describes his mother’s declining health through her Amazon shopping cart. While this poem is an expression of Vuong’s intimate grief and loss, there is something ubiquitous about the Amazon cart as a reflection of our lives.
Hace 6 días · 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.
Hace 1 día · Lerner’s The Topeka School made Michael Roth’s list, as did On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong ’12. Vuong—who was Lerner’s student at the college and a 2019 MacArthur “genius” grant winner —also saw his novel nominated for the 2019 National Book Award and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award.
Hace 1 día · Ocean Vuong does a great job with blending metaphors into the idea of how we make and shift core understandings. I’ve been reading Ada Limón. She’s the 24 th Poet Laureate of the United States. When I first started reading her book, The Carrying, I didn’t know where it was going.
Hace 4 días · El título de la asignatura Literatura Contemporánea en Inglés: siglos XX y XXI es un poco engañoso porque mis colegas y yo acordamos que la asignatura abarcaría desde 1990 en adelante. Como mencioné en mi post anterior, los estudiantes leen en primer año la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day(1989), por lo que 1990 parece un ...
Hace 5 días · artLIVE – Ocean Vương là công dân gốc Việt duy nhất nhận được danh hiệu Great Immigrants 2024 – giải thưởng tôn vinh những người nhập cư có đóng góp to lớn cho sự phát triển chung của Hoa Kỳ. Ocean Vương, tên tiếng Việt là Vương Quốc Vinh, sinh ra tại Sài Gòn.
Hace 1 día · Sade Adu poses in Chicago in 1985. 8 Ways Sade's 'Diamond Life' Album Redefined '80s Music & Influenced Culture. As Sade's masterpiece 'Diamond Life' turns 40, see how the group's debut pushed R&B forward and introduced them as beloved elusive stars. "I only make records when I feel I have something to say,"Sade Aduasserted in 2010 upon the ...
