Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a must read and re-read, a book that will be cherished.' -Lambda Literary Review He stands at the feet of American poetry and unties the masters' shoelaces. Ocean Vuong creates and poses alternate universes within these poems. '.errifying, heartbreaking, surreal, and lyrical-I'm not quite sure how a poet can fit so much humanity into so few words. 'Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.'- Boston Globe From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.' -The New Yorker 'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant.

Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things.'-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words.There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. ' masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence.' - BuzzFeed Books Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year Irish Times 2016 Favourite Books of the Year Huffington Post's 12 Great Poetry Books to Read Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers. 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. In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph.

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches.Publisher: Copper Canyon Press First Edition edition (April 5, 2016).

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