Name: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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Author: Ocean Vuong
ISBN: 9781911214519

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ocean Vuong

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13 x 20 cm

ISBN13

9781911214519

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong (Author) · Jonathan Cape · Paperback

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Synopsis "Night Sky with Exit Wounds"

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize

‘Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.’ New Yorker

An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other.

Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects – love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire – and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: ‘…the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.’ This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years.

‘These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. One of the most important debut collections for a generation.’ Andrew McMillan

Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
PBS Summer Recommendation

Ocean Vuong

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Ocean Vuong (Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, 1988) immigrated to the United States with his family in 1990, after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines. In 2014, he received the Ruth Lilly / Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and with the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds won the Whiting Award and the Forward Prize in the United States and the T. S. Eliot Prize in England. His texts have been published in outlets such as The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel.

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