Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Summer Recommendation and Forward Prize Shortlist translation successful and otherwise

successful and otherwise

slender and pale/for moments

including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s anguished response to the bombing of Hiroshima

In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre

at archaeology in the making

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong <b> Summer Recommendation </b> and <b> Forward Prize Shortlist </b> translation successful and otherwisePBS Summer 2017 Recommendation An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire and attends to them all with lines that feel newly minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close