Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take...

"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...

Um Vietnã dilacerado pela guerra e pelo comunismo; Nova York - o símbolo da América - ferida pela violência e pela intolerância; a homossexualidade como condição de diversidade e marginalização. Trinta e cinco composições poéticas, inspiradas na experiência desse jovem autor vietnamita que emigrou para os Estados Unidos ainda criança. Céu noturno crivado de balas é animado por uma nova linguagem, de fusão e criação, na qual o amor...

Erudito, delicado, desgarrador, Vuong enraíza su poesía en el mito grecolatino y la combina con la musicalidad de su Vietnam natal para abordar, con un coraje lleno de belleza, el exilio, la guerra y la homofobia. Escribe con la humildad y el orgullo de quien se sabe el primer alfabetizado en una familia en la que la poesía siempre fue oral y demuestra su amor por la lengua y el país que le sirvieron de refugio. Pero no por ello deja de manifestar...

De debuutroman van de dichter Ocean Vuong is een schokkend familieportret en een indringend relaas van een eerste liefde, waarin de bezwerende kracht van taal en verhalen wordt aangewend als middel om te overleven en kloven te overbruggen. Op aarde schitteren we even is een brief van een zoon aan zijn moeder die niet kan lezen. De schrijver van de brief, de achtentwintigjarige Hondje, legt een familiegeschiedenis bloot die voor zijn geboorte begon...

"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." -New York Magazine David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space-all under the specter of AIDS. Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections-"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral,"...

"The definitive poetry collection by the world renowned Zen master, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness. This stunning poetry collection offers a window into Thich Nhat Hanh's inner life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than fifty poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals...