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Night sky with exit wounds
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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 strai...
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.
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- Creator
- Ocean Vuong
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- viii, 89 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781556594953, 1556595859, 155659495X, 9781619321564, 9781556595851
- OCLC
- ocn920018887
- "A Lannan literary selection."--Page 4 of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 87-88).
- Threshold -- Telemachus -- Trojan -- Aubade with burning city -- A little closer to the edge -- Immigrant Haibun -- Always & forever -- My father writes from prison -- Headfirst -- In Newport I watch my father lay his cheek to a beached dolphin's wet back -- The gift -- Self-portrait as exit wounds -- Thanksgiving 2006 -- Homewrecker -- Of thee I sing -- Because it's summer -- Into the breach -- Anaphora as coping mechanism -- Seventh circle of earth -- On earth we're briefly gorgeous -- Eurydice -- Untitled (blue, green, and brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952 -- Queen under the hill -- Torso of air -- Prayer for the newly damned -- To my father/To my future son -- Deto(nation) -- Ode to masturbation -- Notebook fragments -- The smallest measure -- Daily bread -- Odysseus redux -- Logophobia -- Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong -- Devotion
Subjects
- American poetry -- 21st century.
- American poetry -- 21st century.
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