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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.
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Night Sky With Exit Wounds
startled me with its urgency and its relevance.
A eerily sure-footed debut.
-- Rupert Thomson
Observer, Books of the Year
Vuong writes with a
piercing, dreamlike clarity
. -- Tristram Fane Saunders
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move
: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant.
From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion
.
New Yorker
Ocean Vuong is one of my auto-buy authors. I keep recommending his
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
to everyone
; I cant shout loud enough about it I have quite a complicated relationship with whats considered "classical poetry" but then someone like Ocean Vuong comes along, and
hes doing something so exciting that you cant help but get caught up in it.
-- Sara Collins
Refinery29
The poetry is
a conduit for a life in which violence and delicacy collide
I like
the fragility, resilience and the sense that the stories that need telling are hardest to tell
a difficulty Ocean Vuong is courageously minded to overcome. -- Kate Kellaway
Observer
There is
a powerful emotional undertow to these poems
that springs from Mr Vuongs sincerity and candour, and from
his ability to capture specific moments in rime with photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things
. -- Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
Ocean Vuong is the Walt Whitman of Vietnamese American literature
. Lyrical, expansive, sexual, provocative, he sings of the Vietnamese body and of Vietnamese history. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen
Literary Hub
The operatic voice of the book is
vulnerable and unpredictable
. Some of its strongest poems are also the strangest It is an impressive, uneven, moving book about painful and important subjects and is
the work of a young poet who might, excitingly, say anything next
. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod
The Sunday Times
Many of the poems in this, Vuongs debut collection, achieve lift-off amid comparable scenes of drama and desperation
This is a book full of promise.
-- David Wheatley
Literary Review
Vuong writes in what may be one of the most unfashionable modes of recent decades, in the richly meditative style of Rainer Maria Rilke.
And, almost unbelievably, he does so successfully Vuongs roomy, cool, risky poems are more than promising, and this is
an exciting and compelling book.
-- John McAuliffe
Irish Times
Taking war and cultural upheaval in its stride,
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is
an assured but open debut collection
. Its accessible to non-poetry readers while offering sufficient depth to keep the experts engaged. -- Aimee Grant Cumberbatch
Evening Standard
If you only read one new book of poetry this year, make it Ocean Vuongs game-changing debut collection.
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
is breathtakingly beautiful, gut-wrenching and sublime
Phenomenal.
Attitude
One of the most extraordinary first collections of poems in recent memory
The poems sear through the heart,
Vuong finding the words and feelings to capture moments with complete clarity
. -- Alex Scott
Cent
His style is
not unlike a wall of sounds
, a relatively consistent, arrestedly pubescent palette of desire and obsession,
turned up high enough to hit the pulse
. -- Declan Ryan
Times Literary Supplement
From its opening lines...
the book brims with precise, surreal, erotic imagery
Vuong authoritatively lays claim to a range of symbols and tropes... Vuong possesses a large and unusual imagination
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is a remarkable debut
. Where Vuong is headed is anyones guess, but youll want to go with him. -- Paul Batchelor
New Statesman
Vuongs intimate lyrical voice, his precise, stark imagery and engagement with gay sexuality construct a familiar story of loss
Balancing memory and silence with erudition, Vuongs poetry resists being so easily pinned down
Vuongs poems, written with intelligence and tenderness, offer new spaces for becoming
. -- Sandeep Parmar
Guardian
His debut collection, praised for its precise, stark imagery, can be read both as a personal story of gay sexuality, absent fathers and hyphenated identities and as
a highly erudite exploration of poetrys possibilities
. -- Martin Doyle
Irish Times
His debut collection,
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
, is the work of a man with history on his back, even if he has had to imagine some of it into being again.
He brings a mythmakers insistence on being seen and heard
to subjects ranging from the death of Telemachuss father, from Homeric myth, to the fall of Saigon and common-or-garden masturbation. -- Claire Armistead
Guardian
Vuongs words writhe and spin
his use of English is astonishing
. Hes a smelter at his poetry, making words transform into something other than letters and meaning. His
gay love poems are stark, beautiful and utterly unnerving in their uncompromising adoration
A magical journey into Vuongs imagination and talents and an astonishing debut collection
.
Gscene
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
contains
poems of finely pitched, operatic feeling that unpick the violence and fragility of masculinity with wisdom and humour
. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod
Sunday Times
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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.
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