var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; objLink.Credit = "'GAZETTE STAFF/SARAH CROSBY'"; Vuong can create startling images… and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words.”, “I was very lucky with this book,” Vuong, 29, said recently as he sat in his home in Florence. objLink.LinkTarget = "_blank";
objLink.IsAboveImage = false; AMHERST, Mass. Grief and ghosts are part of our story and our traditions.”. You might say it’s just the latest part of a long journey Vuong began at age two, when he moved with his family from Vietnam to Hartford, Conn. — by way of a refugee camp in the Philippines — as part of a U.S. program that resettled mixed-race Vietnamese children and younger adults in the wake of the Vietnam War. var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; UMass Amherst campus maps Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds , winner of the Whiting Award and the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016. var currentLocation = window.location; Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he immigrated to the U.S. at the age of two as a child refugee.
Vuong is currently an artist-in-residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, working at the Center for Refugee Poetics. “The registrar was talking about credits and matriculation and I was just thinking, ‘My god, I get to release myself into literature and reading and writing.’ ”. – Ocean Vuong, an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, today was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow in the Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing category. var photocredit = photocredit.toUpperCase();
Image courtesy Tom Hines. Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam before immigrating to Hartford, now lives in Northampton and serves as an assistant professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass. Vuong’s maternal grandmother had had a relationship with an American serviceman, and her daughter — Vuong’s mother — was the result, the irony of which Vuong touches on in a line from one poem: “Thus no bombs = no family = no me.”. var sellablestring = "GAZETTE STAFF"; Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. One of the numerous critics who marveled at Vuong’s poems was the New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani, who drew similarities between his work and that of Emily Dickinson: “Mr. objLink.Credit = "''";
}, The New York Times says Vuong’s poetry “takes the musicality of [Vietnam’s] oral tradition and weds it, brilliantly, with his love of the English language.” GAZETTE STAFF/SARAH CROSBY The poet and essayist is the author of the best-selling, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collections, the Whiting Award, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a New York Times Top
}. ©2020 University of Massachusetts AmherstSite Policies | Site Contact, to common UMass Amherst services and features, Gómez and Kurczynski Receive Mellon Foundation Grant to to Support Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, Two UMass Amherst Authors Win Top Honors in 20th Annual Mass Book Awards, UMass Amherst Feinberg Series to Explore the History and Possible Futures of the Environmental Emergency, UMass Amherst LatinX Theatre and Performance Welcomes Elaine del Valle, Graduate Diversity Fellowship in History of Art & Architecture, originally published by the Office of News and Media Relations. But the title of his book is no accident, and many of his poems are suffused with a sense of loss — from war, from domestic violence, from drugs, from hatred and prejudice. Anne-Gerard Flynn | Special to The Republican. © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. His writing has been featured in The Atlantic, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Ocean Vuong’s website is www.oceanvuong.com. GAZETTE STAFF/SARAH CROSBY objLink.LinkClass = "mycapturelink"; His debut collection of poetry, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds,” won a number of literary prizes last year, including a $50,000 Whiting Award, and it’s also one of 10 finalists for the T.S.
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Vuong, a poet and novelist, is the author of the current best-seller On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, his first novel. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). objLink.PageTitle = currentheadline; Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award; and a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Described in his biography on the foundation site announcing the awards as “child of illiterate rice farmers from rural Vietnam” who came to this country with his family as a refugee at age 2, Vuong was named a fellow in the fiction and non-fiction writing category and is one of four Massachusetts recipients. Vuong, a poet and novelist, is the author of the current best-seller "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," his first novel. “It wasn’t even like work. Past recipients include Max Roach in 1988 for Music Performance and Composition, Marc Shell in 1990 for Literary History and Criticism, John Edgar Wideman in 1993 for Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing and Nancy Folbre in 1998 for Economics. His mother also renamed him “Ocean” when she learned the word meant a body of water that touches many countries, including Vietnam and the U.S. (his birth name was Vinh Quoc Vuong). var photocredit = photocredit.toUpperCase(); I hold the gun / & wonder if an entry wound in the night / would make a hole wide as morning.”, “Vietnam,” Vuong said, “has a history of war that goes back centuries, to Kublai Khan and the Chinese, to the French, the Japanese, the Americans and then the Chinese again.
“I can’t read a lick of it,” Vuong said with a laugh. At top right, Vuong’s debut collection of poetry, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds,” which features a cover photo of the author as a baby with his mother and an aunt, won several awards and mentions on “best of” lists in 2016.
He is the the fifth UMass Amherst faculty member to receive a genius grant, according to UMass. They only had their stories, so I absorbed that.
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He lives Western Massachusetts and teaches at UMass Amherst's MFA for Poets & Writers. “The UMass Amherst community is extraordinarily proud to have Ocean Vuong among us,” said UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy. var objLink = new myC_Remote.BuyLink(); objLink.LinkClass = "mycapturelink"; These days Vuong is working on some new material, but in a different form: He’s writing a novel, and he has drawn inspiration for that in part from several visits to Iceland, where he says there’s a long tradition of writers “introducing themselves as poets” before moving on to fiction.
But Vuong explains that, with the money he earned for his Whiting Award, he was able to buy a place for his mother in East Hartford. objLink.Notes = "From this page " + currentLocation; These include Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr. in 1987, Maria Varela in 1990 and Unita Blackwell in 1992.
}, Vuong’s award-winning poetry collection, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds,” has been translated into a number of other languages, including French and Swedish. Past recipients include Max Roach in 1988 for Music Performance and Composition, Marc Shell in 1990 for Literary History and Criticism, John Edgar Wideman in 1993 for Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing and Nancy Folbre in 1998 for Economics. Vuong also survived growing up poor in a tough part of Hartford — “It wasn’t uncommon to hear gunshots in our neighborhood,” he notes — and the violence of his father, who eventually left the family. UMass Reopening: Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has released the university’s Fall 2020 Reopening Plan, which details how the fall semester will proceed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After a brief but failed attempt to study business at Pace University in New York — his initial goal was to establish a business career and financially help his mother, a manicurist — Vuong found his way to Brooklyn College and writing; he later earned a master’s at New York University, where he also taught creative writing. MISC: For any other miscellaneous queries, please reach out to Peter Bienkowski at booking@oceanvuong.com.. SIGNED BOOKS:. objLink.LinkTarget = "_blank"; Mary Blair was a key figure for th. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his debut poetry collection “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.” Additionally, the book also won the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. “But there was joy there, too, the sense that you can find peace in the world,” he noted. (Copyright John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).
In a short video on the site the 30-year-old Amherst resident talks about language, how being Vietnamese has influenced his writing along with his practice of Buddhism.
“The MacArthur Fellowship celebrates his emerging status as a gifted writer who is a major voice of his generation and a creative force.”. Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam before immigrating to Hartford, now lives in Northampton and serves as an assistant professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass. For more information and to read the comprehensive report, FAQs and other materials, go to umass.edu/reopening. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his debut 2016 poetry collection “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.” The collection also won the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He and his partner, Peter Bienkowski, had visited Northampton and the Valley some years earlier, so when an opening came up this past year to teach in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass, and Vuong got the job, it was an easy decision for the couple to relocate from New York City.
Five College offices closed; see updates on campuses and bus service, Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies, More information on Reading by Ocean Vuong, View a list of all Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies events. Ocean Vuong can still recall the wonder he felt during his first visit to Brooklyn College, about nine years ago, when he began registering for classes in the English department. var photocredit = "'GAZETTE STAFF/SARAH CROSBY' 'Vuong’s award-winning poetry collection, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds,” has been translated into a number of other languages, including French and Swedish. objLink.Notes = "From this page " + currentLocation; Additionally, three alumni with master’s degrees in regional planning … objLink.BackText = "Go back to the Daily Hampshire Gazette";
“It’s been a beautiful, wild ride.”. '"; Vuong notes that in his teens he was also drawn to African-American culture and music — he’s pasted one part of his living room wall with LP album sleeves by soul singers like Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin — because there he felt the same strains of grief and storytelling that he’d found in Vietnamese culture.
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