Radio reviewed Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Review of 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Red is only black remembering.
hardcover, 106 pages
Published June 7, 2019 by Copper Canyon Press.
Red is only black remembering.
Blindsided by this poet. A descendant of Ginsberg.
Vivid, shocking and stark. Playful, ambitious and skilled.
Just my initial impressions on this first read-through. I plan to revisit these poems again, to let them sink deeper.
"My mother said I could be anything
I wanted—but I chose to live."
tight
I’m not the best person to review poetry. I don’t understand it and I don’t know how to read it, but I wanted to go out of my comfort zone and try it out. I’m sure this is a very lovely book of poems but it just wasn’t my thing.
precisely machined and cool to the touch