Night sky with exit wounds
Record details
- ISBN: 9781556594953 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 155659495X (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
viii, 89 pages ; 19 cm
print - Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 87). |
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Subject: | Poetry 21st century |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 811.6 V994n 2016 (Text) | 33126019949621 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A debut collection of poems draws from personal traumas to offer observations on such themes as violence, poverty, depression, and queer sexuality. - Perseus Publishing
One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016
New York Times, Critics Pick
Boston Globe, Best Books listing
NPR, Best Books listing
Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books
San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year
Library Journal,Best Books of 2016
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: âThe poems in Mr. Vuong's new collection, Night Sky With Exit Woundsâ¦possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his wordsâ¦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."
âReading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. 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.'âThe New Yorker
âThe language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelibleâ¦. Highly recommended.'âLibrary Journal, starred review
"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."âBuzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016"
"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. 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.'â2016 Whiting Award citation
"Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."âLitHub
"Vuong's powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identityâall with a tremendous humanity."âSlate
âIn his impressive debut collection, Vuong writes beauty intoâand culls fromâindividual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity.'âPublishers Weekly
Torso of Air
Suppose you do change your life.
& the body is more thana portion of nightâsealed
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 & carveuntil a coin of light appears
& you get to look in, at last,on happiness. The eye
staring back from the other sideâwaiting.
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 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City.
- Perseus Publishing
One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingNPR, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: âThe poems in Mr. Vuongâs new collection, Night Sky With Exit Woundsâ¦possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinsonâs work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr. Vuong can create startling images (a black piano in a field, a wedding-cake couple preserved under glass, a shepherd stepping out of a Caravaggio painting) and make the silences and elisions in his verse speak as potently as his wordsâ¦There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuongâs 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.â
âReading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. 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.ââThe New Yorker
âThe language is painfully, exquisitely exact, the scenes haunting and indelibleâ¦. Highly recommended.ââLibrary Journal, starred review
"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."âBuzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016"
"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. 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.ââ2016 Whiting Award citation
"Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. You will want to crease every page to come back to it, to underline every other line because each word resonates with power."âLitHub
"Vuongâs powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identityâall with a tremendous humanity."âSlate
âIn his impressive debut collection, Vuong writes beauty intoâand culls fromâindividual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War. Poems float and strike in equal measure as the poet strives to transform pain into clarity.ââPublishers Weekly
Torso of Air
Suppose you do change your life.
& the body is more thana portion of nightâsealed
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 & carveuntil a coin of light appears
& you get to look in, at last,on happiness. The eye
staring back from the other sideâwaiting.
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 Ruth Lilly Fellow and winner of the Whiting Award, Ocean Vuong lives in New York City.
- Perseus PublishingA haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.