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Apr 5, 2016 · 41,009 ratings5,183 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Poetry (2016) 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.
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At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our ...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017, and Whiting Award in 2016. Content. Vuong and his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam when he was two years old.
God opens his other eye: two moons in the lake. “Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with…. This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.” —Buzzfeed’s “Most Exciting New Books of 2016”.
Dec 13, 2016 · In Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Vuong accomplishes with sophistication and grace what many poets only strive to accomplish: he invites us to experience a world where hardship and isolation are expectations. Just as queerness becomes the vessel through which Vuong approaches his exploration of family, his most intimate moments become vessels ...
May 10, 2016 · The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, “Night Sky With Exit Wounds” — and two earlier volumes (“No” and “Burnings”) — possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson ...
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Apr 5, 2016 · At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices.
- Ocean Vuong
