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Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong.

by Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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Copper Canyon Press, 2016.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Vietnamese Americans -- Poetry.

Lannan literary selection.

9781556594953 (pbk.)

viii, 89 pages ; 19 cm.

Some copies may be permabound.

Includes bibliographical references (page 87).

In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong now lives in New York City.

American poetry.

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