Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)

from quondame

I read every word but understand only a shattered world of painful shards of cut and held connections and a constant imagery of grenades and their potential to destroy.

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I find myself reading Ocean Vuong's work backwards in time. I felt I had to read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, after all the richly-deserved and glorious reviews, and now I spin back to this previously published collection of poetry. After reading the much more accessible poetry of James Tate ...

from HippieLunatic

Intimate and delicate explorations of the big issues facing each human - family, love, romance, grief, ennui.

from booklove2

I really enjoyed Ocean Vuong's novel 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous', so I thought I'd try his poetry. As much as I'm sure my brain can not actually appreciate how great these poems are, as poetry just falls right into the black hole of my mind and doesn't untangle. I think the sentences of his...

from bell7

This award-winning collection of poetry showcases Vuong's talent for brutal imagery and evocative wordplay. Though I can't say how many, if any, are truly autobiographical, it appears that the poet draws on his own family history and experience as immigrants from Vietnam after surviving war, and ...