Night sky with exit wounds

by Ocean Vuong

89 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Copper Canyon Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-55659-495-3
OCLC Number:: 920018887

(22 reviews)

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.”

5 editions

oatmilk_alex reviewed Night sky with exit wounds by Ocean Vuong (Lannan literary selections)

Review of 'Night sky with exit wounds' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is so beautiful wtf!! I kept tearing up :o

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.

Gespenstvondir reviewed Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Real talent, exciting discovery

5 stars

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.

sidra reviewed Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Review of 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

"My mother said I could be anything
I wanted—but I chose to live."

tight

Kathleen reviewed Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Review of 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

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.