Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong's latest poetry collection ... hands is often the one behind your face." Similarly, Vuong dedicates "Toy Boat" to Tamir Rice — a 12-year-old black boy killed ...

Ocean Vuong ... about Vuong’s work. “I’m also Vietnamese American, and I felt like for me, he embodied a lot of what I felt the Vietnamese experience in America is,” she said. During the event, Vuong ...