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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

by Ocean Vuong · 2016

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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.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thiswar and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of this
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diversitydiversityMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of this
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21st century21st centuryMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
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emotionalemotionalMore like thisLess of thisthought provokingthought provokingMore like thisLess of thissadsadMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
short · 89 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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