Ocean Vuong – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Ocean Vuong – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

“The first novel was my attempt to bring poetry’s ethos into the novel form. The novel is the youngest form; it’s a young genre. Because it’s so young, it rose alongside print culture with the Gutenberg printing press. And so, it has a very unique position in our history—in that it is both a genre and a container. It can hold the romance, it can hold the lyric, it can hold the essay, it can even hold drama, as Melville proved. But the lyric poem…