Night sky with exit wounds
Ocean Vuong · 2016
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Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…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 words…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.”
Book details
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Series
- Lannan literary selections
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Editions
- 9
- Reader rating
- 4.3 / 5 (6)
- Pages
- 89
- ISBN
- 9781556594953
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