Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

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Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020, in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York, but no one guessed that within a handful of days such an event would become unimaginable. • Most stunning is how presciently, exquisitely Ocean speaks to the world we have come to inhabit— its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life. • “I want to love more than death can harm. And I want to tell you this often: That despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night — we can live. And we will.” • Ocean Vuong is the author of a novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and two collections of poetry, Time Is a Mother and Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whiting Award. He was a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. • This episode last aired on May 3, 2023. • ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT • An adventure in the mystery and the art of living • A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world • A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others • A calling to be part of the generative story of our time • THE PODCAST • Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. • We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world. • On Being with Krista Tippett: https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/ • STAY CONNECTED • Instagram: / onbeing • Facebook: / onbeing • The Pause Saturday email newsletter: https://onbeing.org/newsletter/ • #onbeing #kristatippett #oceanvuong #poet #poetry #life #breath

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