TY  - GEN
N2  - This poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit <a href="https://nwnmcollaborative.org/library/">Accessible Narrative Medicine website</a>. </p><p>Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut in a working-class family. He attended Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to pursue an international marketing degree. He then dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, eventually earning a BA in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He later earned his MFA in Poetry from NYU. He is presently a tenured professor in the Creative Writing MFA Program at NYU and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. (Source: <a href="https://www.oceanvuong.com/about">oceanvuong.com</a>).
AB  - This poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit <a href="https://nwnmcollaborative.org/library/">Accessible Narrative Medicine website</a>. </p><p>Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut in a working-class family. He attended Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to pursue an international marketing degree. He then dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College, eventually earning a BA in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He later earned his MFA in Poetry from NYU. He is presently a tenured professor in the Creative Writing MFA Program at NYU and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. (Source: <a href="https://www.oceanvuong.com/about">oceanvuong.com</a>).
T1  - Self-portrait as exit wounds
DA  - 2016
AU  - Vuong, Ocean
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42195/files/Self-Portrait-as-Exit-Wounds-by-Ocean-Vuong-3.docx-1.pdf
PB  - Copper Canyon Press
LA  - eng
PY  - 2016
ID  - 42195
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42195/files/Self-Portrait-as-Exit-Wounds-by-Ocean-Vuong-3.docx-1.pdf
KW  - Family
KW  - Social Discrimination
KW  - Emigration and Immigration
KW  - Survival
KW  - Psychological Trauma
KW  - ancestors
KW  - displacement
KW  - identity
KW  - Vietnamese heritage
TI  - Self-portrait as exit wounds
Y1  - 2016
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42195/files/Self-Portrait-as-Exit-Wounds-by-Ocean-Vuong-3.docx-1.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42195/files/Self-Portrait-as-Exit-Wounds-by-Ocean-Vuong-3.docx-1.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42195/files/Self-Portrait-as-Exit-Wounds-by-Ocean-Vuong-3.docx-1.pdf
ER  -