Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath | The On Being Project
The exquisite writer, with language for what’s unfolded this past year — its heartbreak, its poetry, and its possibilities of both destroying and saving.
On Being with Krista Tippett Ocean Vuong A Life Worthy of Our Breath Last Updated May 3, 2023 Original Air Date April 30, 2020 Listen Part of the Civil Conversations Project Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020 in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York around a new virus. But no one guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable. Most stunning is how presciently, exquisitely Ocean speaks to the world we have come to inhabit— its heartbreak and its poet
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