Ocean Vuong: "When I write, I feel larger than the limits of my body." | Louisiana Channel - YouTube

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"When I write, I feel much larger than the limits of my body. There is a mystery you tap into that is much bigger. And the poem becomes just a glimpse into what you reveal to yourself", says Ocean Vuong, one of the most celebrated poets to emerge in America. Vuong began to study marketing without completing his first term. He dropped out of business school and enrolled at Brooklyn College, where he studied literature and where the American writer Ben Lerner was crucial for Vuong's development as a young writer. Today Vuong serves as a tenured Professor in the Creative Writing MFA Program at…

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