Ocean Vuong Writes for Himself
"He tells me that it is the only book he’s written that he is proud of, because he compromised nothing. He thinks that has something to do with losing his mother. 'All the things I’d written, it was all to try to take care of her. I went to school for her, I worked for her—she was the source,' he says. 'When that was taken away, I didn’t have anything else to answer to. And so I finally wrote for myself.'
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rocío Cerón (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"Language and nature are an ancient binomial that has reinforced the physicality between the world we inhabit and how we inhabit naming it. The power of the bird is not only its chirp and trill, but the richness of its name which alters our lips in pronouncing it: albatross, kestrel, blackbird, screech owl, flycatcher, vireo, thrush, golden tanager." |
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