Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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Ocean Vuong: Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2017, Penguin Random House)

96 pages

English language

Published Dec. 5, 2017 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-911214-51-9
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Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. 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. 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.”

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  • Poetry (poetic works by one author)

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