Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

Narrated by: Keong Sim

WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize

A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016

"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."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Library Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting Award WINNER, 2017 Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award FINALIST, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALIST, 2017 Lambda Literary Award FINALIST

In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.

©2016 Ocean Vuong (P)2016 Tantor Media

A passionate regard and gift for language.

ocean integrates life experience ,culture,and love in a touching display of rare authenticity.Truly an invitation to his most intimate ,dark and reflective moments .A PLEASURE TO BE THERE.gail brena

I’ll still raise my hand and say, play it again.

Like a fist at the end of a hot kiss, you’ll be stunnned in disbelief. But you’ll go back and hear it again in wonder at how such beautiful use of language reveals what’s usually other.

So so beautiful!

Such creative and beautiful writing! I've never Heard anybody right so it like this. I absolutely love it! Infinity stars!