1. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Creator / Contributor:

Vuong, Ocean

Date Created / Date Issued:

2016

Description:

A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty. "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 enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."--Publisher's description.

Work Based On:

Homer's Odyssey

Publisher:

Copper Canyon Press

Language:

English

Format:

Print book

Type:

Poetry

Topic:

Asian American, LGBTQ, Fathers and sons, and Poetry

Rights - Use and Reproduction:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/