Poets like ocean vuong reddit. A place for sharing published poetry. Hey everyone, as the title suggests I’m looking for poets or poetry books that are similar in style to Richard Siken with themes of heartbreak, love, unrequited love, mental health, life/nostalgia etc I’m relatively new to reading and collecting poetry and can’t seem to find anything similar to the style of Crush. I love Ocean Vuong's a work. I keep finding all of the “Pinterest relatable quote” style poetry I cannot stand ocean vuong. Find authors like Ocean Vuong from the world’s largest community of readers. Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). Wondering if there are any black poets/writers like him? Obviously they don’t have to be and won’t be identical but similar in style and the themes of identity etc. Pure trash clocked in “im a smolbean who cares too much. Start with Please dont let me be lonely It is masterful!. For sharing orignal content, please visit r/OCPoetry It is difficult poetry at times, much like Prynne, but that is the whole point of reading poetry for me: to access ideas that can only be conveyed through verse, even at the cost of (or perhaps through) ambiguity. Recently received Night Sky With Exit Wounds and, as I'm kind of new to poetry, i was wondering what other people think of his work. His cloying sincerity has infected an entire generation of poets and his shitty as novel was one of the most tedious and boring books I read that year. In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. In his acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong explores identity, immigration, and family through beautiful prose. Just finished reading “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong, and it was amazing this was the first book I’d read outside of a school curriculum in many years (and I’d often BS my way through those books too). Thank you in advance!! We have selected some of Vuong’s greatest poems which are available online via the Poetry Foundation and Poetry Archive, but if these whet your appetite for more, both of those collections are worth getting hold of. 2M subscribers in the Poetry community. Whats the general consensus in the community about his work? Just thought it would be fun and helpful to know more about what I'm reading from those who have more experience. ” Even more insane when you know his deal for that book was seven figures. On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous is great. Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American poet and novelist known for emotional storytelling. Another contemporary poet I would recommend is Claudia Rankine. Goodreads members who like Ocean Vuong also like: Haruki Murakami, Wally Lam Handpicked recommendations to authors who have a similar writing style to Ocean Vuong I’ve wanted to get into poetry collections and poetry books recently, and would love some from LGBT authors or have senses of LGBT undertones in them. hva3lpal nv6 aijyes p0fhj nemb pq1 v5p50e 37 xki8rjp x44