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Author Ocean Vuong on being generous in your work – The Creative Independent

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Poet Ocean Vuong discusses what it means to tackle new forms, the generosity required to be both a reader and a writer, and the radical notion of taking language into your own hands.

On being generous in your work Prelude Photo: Ebru Yildiz " href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/tci-assets/uploads/ocean1.jpg"> Ocean Vuong poet, writer Ocean Vuong is an American poet and essayist based in New York City. Even though his most recent book, 2016’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds , was a collection of poems, Vuong is now engaged in the task of writing what he calls “the ghost of a novel.” His work is predicated on the notion that both reading and writing are acts that require generosity and a willingness to explore. Conversation March 15, 2022 - Ocean Vuong is an American poet and essayist

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