Ocean Vuong and Kaveh Akbar: Young American Poetry

Reading

In his award-winning book, Vuong writes with photographic precision about violence, war, and human relationships from the perspective of an immigrant and gay man. In his poems, Kaveh Akbar considers his alcoholism as a means to escape from the world and reflects on the path of his recovery.

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