The New Salon: Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Darin Strauss

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  • čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
  • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published by Penguin Press in June 2019. He is also the author of the poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. He received his MFA from the NYU Creative Writing Program. Vuong is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
    Hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program Faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss. Co-sponsored with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

Komentáře • 39

  • @Jj-ds7mk
    @Jj-ds7mk Před 2 lety +28

    I love, love, love how Ocean's answers are like teaching as art.

  • @maisarah961
    @maisarah961 Před rokem +11

    How does this only have 30K views? This is beautiful.

  • @lisageiszler2332
    @lisageiszler2332 Před 3 lety +46

    Incredible!! Ocean Vuong is a beautiful deep brilliant being. I loved when he talked about how capitalism has shaped our metaphors and language and the force of productivity on all our lives.

  • @leiyu6178
    @leiyu6178 Před 3 lety +15

    how did Darin manage to act so nonchalant hearing these wonderful things!

  • @susan1302
    @susan1302 Před 2 lety +10

    What a brilliant teacher! Riveting.

  • @maymaylisacat2887
    @maymaylisacat2887 Před 4 lety +33

    "I had to be more BUTCH to write the novel" - I'm dying

  • @user-qv5ff9yk9z
    @user-qv5ff9yk9z Před 3 měsíci

    Breathtaking in his trembling vulnerability and razor like clarity of vision of the great complexity of human experience- riveting!

  • @AECSRQ
    @AECSRQ Před 4 lety +50

    Skip the introductory essay reading? OV starts at 5:15

  • @jacklu1190
    @jacklu1190 Před 4 lety +18

    He is a great writer.

  • @lutravelstheworld
    @lutravelstheworld Před rokem +8

    "Memory is a second chance"

  • @clara-df5km
    @clara-df5km Před 3 lety +13

    FUCK YEAH THIS GUY IS A GENIUS

  • @troyalamon
    @troyalamon Před rokem +2

    This is so amazing

  • @gabrielm217
    @gabrielm217 Před 4 lety +22

    excellent interview and i like the film quality.
    Does anyone know who the authors are that he referenced while speaking about yin and yang philosophy?

    • @gabrielm217
      @gabrielm217 Před 4 lety +1

      good reply

    • @AECSRQ
      @AECSRQ Před 4 lety

      Lao Tse, author of The Tao Te Ching, was the first name he mentioned.

    • @ngungnghikhong5895
      @ngungnghikhong5895 Před 4 lety +11

      i can tell you about him , but you can google it too . But all of that still don't give you the experience of this young man . Like when Vuong still student in NJ , at night he drove on his bicycle collect left over food at restaurant and share it to homeless peoples . At one of his award he toke his MOM with him , she can not stand straight because back pain . he said she got the pain form years working as nail tech , and those not straight back are the ladder help kids me to stand here to day ...... thank you MOM . I hope you can feel his soul understand the love he in words ...... Beethoven eyesight was temporarily his hearing was not good but his music touch many soul . Pleas stop asking who said that , who did that , where it come from . just look at how it touch your soul . ......... that is the beauty of art .

    • @thumtlnguyen3626
      @thumtlnguyen3626 Před 4 lety +2

      The second author he mentioned is Du Fu. If you can read Vietnamese, one good book about yinyang is "thuyết âm dương ngũ hành".

  • @treeleaf2089
    @treeleaf2089 Před 3 lety +13

    i aint got a week to ruminate a poem, what if i die tomrrow

  • @smallcapy
    @smallcapy Před 2 lety

    everyone asked really interesting questions

  • @theerthashaju3884
    @theerthashaju3884 Před rokem +1

    The word laughter derived from slaughter.

  • @29mirstudio
    @29mirstudio Před 3 lety +8

    I will never again eat veal. It’s a promise I intend to keep

  • @寿司食べたいな

    Can someone kindly explain his answer to the last question?

  • @logannaylor6182
    @logannaylor6182 Před 7 měsíci

    31:21

  • @leuvenfra
    @leuvenfra Před 4 lety +6

    mouth sounds asmr :(

  • @nononouh
    @nononouh Před rokem

    7

  • @sicszmsja2323s
    @sicszmsja2323s Před 9 měsíci +1

    The terrible and emotionless introduction nearly ruined the fatanstic reading by Ocean Vuong.

  • @findbridge1790
    @findbridge1790 Před rokem

    thank you Langley for this clown. laughter is always good

  • @piercebales9546
    @piercebales9546 Před 2 lety +1

    poetry is dead.

  • @piercebales9546
    @piercebales9546 Před 2 lety +2

    Mawkish, fey, amateurish, talentless, disingenuous, unimaginative, sub-literate...Like 90% of modern poetry.