Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong is a poignant collection of poetry published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. This edition spans 89 pages and is presented in English. The work delves into profound themes such as romance, family, memory, grief, and war, capturing the complexities of human emotion with clarity and depth.
Readers will find that Vuong’s poetry reflects a sincere exploration of the human experience, marked by a unique blend of lyrical beauty and raw honesty. The collection addresses significant topics, including love, identity, and the nuances of existence, all while maintaining a sense of urgency and introspection. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, Vuong invites readers to engage with the fleeting nature of life and the enduring impact of personal history.
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The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016
New York Times, Critics Pick
Boston Globe, Best Books listing
Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books
San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year
Library Journal, Best Books of 2016
“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. 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.”–New York Times
“From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.”–New Yorker
“Extraordinary.”–Los Angeles Times
“Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival.”–Boston Globe
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. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant.”
Torso of Air
Suppose you do change your life.
& the body is more than
a portion of night–sealed
with bruises. Suppose you woke
& found your shadow replaced
by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful
& gone. So you take the knife to the wall
instead. You carve & carve
until a coin of light appears
& you get to look in, at last,
on happiness. The eye
staring back from the other side–
Waiting.
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