Her poems' intent: reclaim both language and pleasure ... The technical prowess of his verse is stunning. But Ocean Vuong, with his thoughtful presence and attentive words, has also become ...

The selected poems deal with a variety of subjects ... glasslike —yet they join to fill in the dry ocean within, ...

Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence ... and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Vuong’s poems are whispered prayers of the ...

This course deals with Atlantic Poetry from the long eighteenth century to the present, and from both sides of the Atlantic. It focuses on how engagements with the theme of the Atlantic have ...