In his impressive debut collection, Vuong, a 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, writes beauty intoand culls fromindividual, familial, and historical traumas. "Vuong’s powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identityall with a tremendous humanity." Slate You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power." LitHub " Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. Visceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world.”2016 Whiting Award citation
"This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level.A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with.This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence." Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion.” The New Yorker His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant.
His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016"
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