# Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Hardcover

by **Ocean Vuong** (Author)

**_The New Yorker_, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016**  
**_New York Times_, Critics Pick**  
**_Boston Globe_, Best Books listing**  
**_Miami Herald_, Best LGBTQ Books**  
**_San Francisco Chronicle_, Top 100 Books of the Year**  
**_Library Journal_, Best Books of 2016**

  

"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."--**_New York Times_**

  

"From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."**\--_New Yorker_**

  

"Extraordinary."**\--_Los Angeles Times_**

  

"Ecstatic, bawdy, haunted, and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival."**\--_Boston Globe_**

  

**Ocean Vuong's** first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant."

  

**Torso of Air**

  

_Suppose you do change your life._  
_& the body is more than_  
_a portion of night--sealed_  
_with bruises. Suppose you woke_  
_& found your shadow replaced_  
_by a black wolf. The boy, beautiful_  
_& gone. So you take the knife to the wall_  
_instead. You carve & carve_  
_until a coin of light appears_  
_& you get to look in, at last,_  
_on happiness. The eye_  
_staring back from the other side--_  
_Waiting._

### Author Biography

Ocean Vuong: Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong attended Brooklyn College. He is the author of two chapbooks as well as a full-length collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City.  

**Number of Pages:** 106

**Dimensions:** 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** June 07, 2019

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