{"product_id":"night-sky-with-exit-wounds-9781556595851","title":"Night Sky with Exit Wounds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most celebrated poetry books of the year: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e The Best Books of Poetry of 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e Critics Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe, \u003c\/i\u003e Best Books listing\u003cbr\u003eNPR, Best Books listing\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald, \u003c\/i\u003e Best LGBTQ Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003e Top 100 Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichiko Kakutani in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e writes: \"The poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, \u003ci\u003eNight Sky With Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e...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. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his words...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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelible.... Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Night Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Most Exciting New Books of 2016\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level...A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.\"--2016 Whiting Award citation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power.\"--\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Vuong's powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identity--all with a tremendous humanity.\"--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his impressive debut collection, Vuong writes beauty into--and culls from--individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTorso of Air\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuppose you do change your life.\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; the body is more than\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea portion of night--sealed\u003cbr\u003ewith bruises. Suppose you woke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; found your shadow replaced\u003cbr\u003eby a black wolf. The boy, beautiful \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; gone. So you take the knife to the wall\u003cbr\u003einstead. You carve \u0026amp; carve\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003euntil a coin of light appears\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; you get to look in, at last, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eon happiness. The eye\u003cbr\u003estaring back from the other side--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewaiting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Saigon, Vietnam, \u003cb\u003eOcean Vuong \u003c\/b\u003eattended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eNight Sky with Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e. A Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556595851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.38d","brand":"Ocean Vuong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659694796956,"sku":"9781556595851","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_75b3c652-3584-49e4-9439-fe09e8889b5a.jpg?v=1603895291","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/night-sky-with-exit-wounds-9781556595851","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}