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Why Buddhist Poet Ocean Vuong Practices a Death Meditation
“Honesty is the vehicle of truth. But death needs no vehicle.”
Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong is a MacArthur Grant recipient who was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds and the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. His latest collection, out April 2022, is entitled Time Is a Mother.
Poet Ocean Vuong on the Creativity of Refugees
In a recent episode of Life As It Is, the Buddhist writer discusses his new poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, and poetry’s power to interrupt
CultureMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Finishing the Work
An excerpt of a conversation between poet Ocean Vuong and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen.
Parting Words
An excerpt from the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
What Scares Writer and Zen Buddhist Ocean Vuong
The author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was listed among the New Yorker’s best poetry books of 2016, discusses how fear inspires his work.
Podcasts
Getting Close to the Terror
In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle editor-in-chief James Shaheen and co-host Sharon Salzberg sit down with Buddhist poet Ocean Vuong to discuss his new collection, Time Is a Mother.
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