Play It Again: Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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I'll Ask These Questions to the Holograms
Fiction creates kind of like this ethical plane where the conditions are set in which the most challenging questions could be asked. Fiction and in a sense narrative art films included gives us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out at no true cost to our own. The poems create a myth those out of the context of history. They actually use history as a launching path rather than a final place of rest for the poems. I don't know where I will end up between these two polar stances respect or courage but I hope that by the time I'm done with this life I end up on the side of respect.
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