<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Vuong, Ocean, 1988-]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Vuong, Ocean, 1988-]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tccl/rss/search?query=Vuong%2C%20Ocean%2C%201988-&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:18:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Call Me by My True Names]]></title><description><![CDATA["The definitive poetry collection by the world renowned Zen master, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness. This stunning poetry collection offers a window into Thich Nhat Hanh's inner life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than fifty poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals the stories of his past-from his childhood in war-torn Vietnam to the beginnings of his own spiritual journey-and shares his ideas on how we can come together to create a more peaceful, compassionate world"--]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6273064</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6273064</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nhất Hạnh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6273064063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781952692260/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1330202310</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Great Gay Book]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Great Gay Book is a gorgeously designed collection of art, essays, short fiction, poetry, interviews, profiles, and photography from the archives of the beloved queer magazine Hello Mr., as well as new material from many of today's biggest LGBTQ+ creatives. In these pages, the magazine's founder, Ryan Fitzgibbon, has curated the most evergreen written and visual content from the publication's archives, and showcases work from a class of contributors--the result is a vibrant compendium of celebrated and emerging queer voices."--]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6787025</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6787025</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6787025063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories of Growth, Belonging, &amp; Other Queer Possibilities</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419766787/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1436665998</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Emperor of Gladness]]></title><description><![CDATA[One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6973506</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6973506</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuong, Ocean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6973506063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593831878/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1434572815</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]></title><description><![CDATA["[A] portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity"--]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4445705</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4445705</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuong, Ocean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4445705063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525562023/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]></title><description><![CDATA[A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, this book is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4546183</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4546183</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuong, Ocean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4546183063</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593104293/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1102655837</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night Sky With Exit Wounds]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--And very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."--Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5857299</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5857299</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuong, Ocean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5857299063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781556595851/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=920018887</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Is A Mother]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented tragedies to find not a restoration, but the epicenter of the break"--]]></description><link>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5827061</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5827061</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vuong, Ocean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5827061063</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593300237/MC.GIF&amp;client=tulpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1259295782</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]></title><description><![CDATA["Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. 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