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Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author.

Night sky with exit wounds / Ocean Vuong.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]

©2016

viii, 89 pages ; 19 cm

A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty--Publisher's description.

"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"--Publisher's description.

2000-2099

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry. -- 21st century.

POETRY -- American -- Asian American.

POETRY -- LGBT.

POETRY -- Subjects & Themes -- Love & Erotica.

Poetry

Poesi.

American poetry.

Poetry

poetry.

Poetry

Gay poetry.

Poetry.

Poésie.

Poésie homosexuelle.

Poems. Selections

"A Lannan literary selection."--Page 4 of cover.

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

Includes bibliographical references (page 87).

Winner of the Whiting Award

Threshold -- Telemachus -- Trojan -- Aubade with burning city -- A little closer to the edge -- Immigrant Haibun -- Always and forever -- My father writes from prison -- Headfirst -- In Newport I watch my father lay his cheek to a beached dolphin's wet back -- The gift -- Self-portrait as exit wounds -- Thanksgiving 2006 -- Homewrecker -- Of thee I sing -- Because it's summer -- Into the breach -- Anaphora as coping mechanism -- Seventh circle of earth -- On earth we're briefly gorgeous -- Eurydice -- Untitled (blue, green, and brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952 -- Queen under the hill -- Torso of air -- Prayer for the newly damned -- To my father/To my future son -- Deto(nation) -- Ode to masturbation -- Notebook fragments -- The smallest measure -- Daily bread -- Odysseus redux -- Logophobia -- Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong -- Devotion.

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