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Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

ocean vuong talking about how he/him pronouns make him feel and how his gender is... literally so fucking true shout out to that guy he gets it

this from the paris review + his poem "beautiful short loser"

Ocean Vuong, from "Skinny Dipping", Time Is a Mother

Woodworking at the End of the World, Ocean Vuong

“Oh, you know, you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this, to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. And so, you know, it's– really, her absence is felt every day.

“And ever since I lost her, I felt that my life has been lived in only two days, if that makes any sense. You know, there's the today, where she is not here, and then the vast and endless yesterday where she was, even though it's been three years since. How many months and days? But I only see it in — with one demarcation. Two days — today without my mother, and yesterday, when she was alive. That's all I see. That's how I see my life now.”

-Ocean Vuong, NPR

Frustration / longing / love

All roads lead back to your middle school gymnasium

Fiona Apple/Shauna Niequist/Episode 7, I Am In Eskew/Tim Walker for Vogue Italia/ @mango-season /The Last Scene in the Movie, Eleanor Hsieh ( @wh0rism )/Saint Bernard, Lincoln/Working for the Knife, Mitski/Virginia Woolf/Ocean Vuong

"the touch," anne sexton

maggie nelson “that this exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. to have seen such beautiful things. to find oneself placed in their midst” vs richard siken “it should be enough. to make something beautiful should be enough. it isn’t. it should be”

also ocean vuong “i want to insist that our being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. and so what? so what if all i ever made of my life always more of it?”

making art

stoned at the nail salon, lorde | the history of love, nicole krauss | working for the knife, mitski | tracy emin | ugly, bitter, and true, suzanne rivecca | laurie anderson | ocean vuong | joan tierney

from ocean vuong's stories

Ocean Vuong, from Daily Bread, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

ocean vuong someday i’ll love \ kaye donachie against the mass of night \ nailone marta sketch \ agustin gómez-arcos the carnivorous lamb \ henrik uldalen \ richard siken war of the foxes (ii) \ @heavensghost \ barbara kroll \ @d0ll-part-s crossing the line \ eula bliss the pain scale \ david shelvino

"I miss all my friends, all the time, constantly"

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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit (via indeskidgepoetry)