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Read along: https://www.thenation.com/article/eurydice/

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Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese poet born in 1988 on a rice farm outside of Saigon. His mother is mixed-race—her mother was a farm girl and her father was an American soldier—which meant that working in Vietnam was, at the time, illegal for her. When she was found, the whole family was moved to the Philippines, where they lived in poverty for eight months before finally being granted entrance to the US. Ocean, along with six relatives, moved to Hartford, Connecticut into a one-bedroom apartment. Shortly after moving, Ocean’s father left, leaving the boy to be raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunt. Ocean didn’t learn to read until he was eleven, but he was fascinated by the English language. He struggled through school, but decided to enroll in a community college to study marketing in order to support his mother. He quit after only eight weeks—he was “tired of learning how to lie”—but some of the courses he took ignited a passion for poetry in him. For months after dropping out, he didn’t know what to do, but eventually decided to return to college for an English degree in Brooklyn College. Afterwards, he spent some time writing, alone in his small New York apartment, his pages of work always scattered about the cramped hall. He eventually put together Night Sky With Exit Wounds and entered it into an open competition which promised personal rejection letters for each entrant. He expected to be rejected and hoped to learn from such a letter, but instead was sent an offer for his collection to be published by Copper Canyon Press. By the age of 28, he was an award-winning poet and an assistant professor on the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work had been translated into many languages across the globe, and he’s now living with his partner of 10 years, Peter, who he’d met at business school.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ocean-vuong

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/03/ocean-vuong-forward-prize-vietnam-war-saigon-night-sky-with-exit-wounds

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-a-poet-named-ocean-means-to-fix-the-english-language

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57586/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous

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https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kissing-vietnamese

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/someday-ill-love-ocean-vuong

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3o615KRog

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/ocean-vuong-immigrating-into-english

https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/ocean-vuong-poetry-bodies-and-stillness/